He narrated from: Ismaʿil ibn Jaʿfar, Yaʿqub ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Qummi, Ibn al-Mubarak, Jarir al-Dabbi, Hushaym, Ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿAbbad ibn al-ʿAwwam, ʿAmmar ibn Muhammad, Yahya ibn Abi Zaʾidah, Yaʿqub ibn al-Walid, and a number of others.
He was well-versed in the discipline and travelled widely in pursuit of knowledge.
Those who transmitted from him include: Ibn Majah, Abu Zurʿah, Abu Hatim, Ahmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Jammal, Abu Yahya Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad al-Zaʿfarani, ʿAli ibn Saʿid ibn Bashir, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Ziyad al-Tayalisi, Muhammad ibn Ayyub ibn al-Durays, Muhammad ibn Masʿud al-Asadi, and many others besides.
Abu Hatim said: “I heard Ibrahim ibn Musa say, ‘No one from among those who used to seek knowledge with us is still alive except ʿAmr ibn Rafiʿ.’”
Abu Hatim also said: “Of all the people from whom we wrote, scarcely anyone had a truer tongue or sounder hadith than ʿAmr ibn Rafiʿ.”
Ibn Hibban said: “His narrations are upright.”
Abu Yaʿla al-Khalili said: “He died in 237 AH.”
83 – Yahya ibn Ayyub Abu Zakariyya al-Baghdadi * (Muslim, Abu Dawud)
The imam, scholar, exemplar, and hadith memoriser, Abu Zakariyya al-Baghdadi al-Maqabiri, renowned for his devotion.
He narrated from: Sharik the judge, Ismaʿil ibn Jaʿfar, and ʿAbbad ibn ʿAbbad,