Those who narrated from him include Muslim, al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah and—through an intermediary—al-Nasāʾī; as well as Ishāq ibn Aḥmad al-Khuzaʿī, al-Ḥakam ibn Maʿbad, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Sarrāj, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ghaḍāʾirī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Muḥammad al-Janadī, and many others besides.

Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “I asked my father about him, and he replied, ‘He was a righteous man, though somewhat inattentive. I found in his collection a fabricated hadith that he attributed to Ibn ʿUyaynah—yet he himself was truthful.’” (1)

It is reported from al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Layth that he said, “Ibn Abī ʿUmar al-ʿAdanī narrated to us, and he had performed seventy-seven pilgrimages.”

I was also informed that for sixty years he never refrained from making tawāf (circumambulation) around the Kaʿbah. (2)

Al-Bukhārī said: “He died in Mecca with eleven nights remaining of Dhū al-Ḥijjah, in the year 243 AH.” (3)

I (the author) say: He had reached his nineties—may Allah Most High have mercy on him.

Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh informed us; from Abū Rūḥ; Zāhir informed us; Abū Saʿd informed us; Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdan informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyā ibn Muʿādh al-Nasawī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī ʿUmar narrated to us; Sufyān narrated, from Abū al-Zinād, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “When …”