He heard from: Ḥammād ibn Salamah, al-Qāsim al-Ḥuddānī, Muḥammad ibn Rāshid, Mahdī ibn Maymūn, and a number of others from whom he alone is known to transmit.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah, Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr, al-Bazzār, Abū Yaʿlā, Bakr ibn Muqbil, ʿAlī al-Ghaḍāʾirī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Mandah, Zakariyyā al-Sājī, and many others besides.
I am aware of no criticism against him. Leading scholars transmitted his reports. He died in 243 AH.
100 – Abū Muṣʿab Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥārith al-Zuhrī (ʿ)
The Imām, the reliable authority, the Shaykh of the City of Emigration: Abū Muṣʿab Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Zurārah ibn Muṣʿab ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf al-Qurashī, al-Zuhrī, the Madinan jurist and judge of Medina.
He was born in 150 AH.
He kept close company with Mālik ibn Anas, studied jurisprudence under him, heard the entire al-Muwaṭṭaʾ from him, and mastered it.⦗1⦘
He also heard from: al-ʿAṭṭāf ibn Khālid, Yūsuf ibn al-Mājishūn, Muslim ibn Khālid al-Zanjī, Ḥusayn ibn Zayd ibn ʿAlī, Ibn Abī Ḥāzim, and Muḥriz ibn