Those who narrated from him include al-Qāḍī al-Mahāmilī, Muḥammad ibn Makhlad, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn al-Manādā, Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm, Abū ʿAwānah, and others.
Al-Dāraqūṭnī said, “There is no harm in him.” (1)
Abū al-Fatḥ al-Azdī mentioned him in his book al-Ḍuʿafāʾ, but he was mistaken. The main thing he held against him was the man’s remark, “He claimed to have heard from Sufyān,” and that is a flimsy objection.
He also recorded that the man’s nickname was Jūdhābah.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 270 AH.
I say: he probably reached nearly one hundred years of age.
The last of his disciples to die was al-Aṣamm, and the final person anywhere to transmit this booklet from al-Aṣamm’s disciples was ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Muḥammad al-Shīrawī, who remained alive in Naysābūr until 510 AH.
144 – Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Maysarah al-Ṣadafī * (M, S, Q)
ibn Ḥafṣ ibn Ḥayyān, the Imām, Shaykh al-Islam, Abū Mūsā