Abu al-‘Abbas al-Sarraj, and also Ibn Khuzaymah, Zakariyya al-Saji, al-Qasim ibn Zakariyya al-Mutarraz, Yahya ibn Sa‘id, Muhammad ibn al-Musayyab al-Arghiyani, al-Baghawi, Ibn Abi Dawud, Muhammad ibn Isma‘il al-Baslani (1), al-Hasan ibn ‘Ali al-Tusi, ‘Abd Allah ibn Najiyah, and many others besides them.

‘Abd Allah ibn Ja‘far ibn Khakan al-Marwazi said: I heard Bundar say, “I wanted to set out—that is, to undertake the rihlah—but my mother forbade me, so I obeyed her, and blessing was placed for me in that.” (2)

Ibn Khuzaymah said: I heard Bundar say, “I kept attending Yahya al-Qattan—for more than twenty years, he said—and had he lived longer, I would have heard a great deal more from him.” (3)

Abu ‘Ubayd al-Ajurri said: I heard Abu Dawud say, “I wrote from Bundar roughly (4) fifty thousand hadiths, and I wrote a few from Abu Musa, who is more precise than Bundar; yet were it not for the essential soundness found in Bundar, his narrations would have been discarded.” (5)

The Imam of the Imams, Ibn Khuzaymah, said in his book Kitab al-Tawhid: “Our teacher—the leading scholar of his day in knowledge and transmission—Muhammad ibn Bashshar, informed us.”

Muhammad ibn al-Musayyab said: I heard Bundar say, “From me there have been written five—”