and Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Surayj, Abū ʿAwanah, Abū Nuʿaym ibn ʿAdī, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Maḥāmilī, Ibn Makhlad, Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl al-Balkhī, Abū(1) Bakr ibn Ziyād, Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Qaṭṭān, and a host of others.
He wrote in his History: “I heard from ʿAbd al-Razzāq in the year 204 AH.”
He also compiled al-Musnad al-kabīr (the Major Musnad).
ʿAbbās al-Dūrī used to say: “I refrain from speaking about al-Ramādī on a certain matter for fear it may not be permissible for me. I would sometimes hear Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn say, ‘Abū Bakr al-Ramādī(2) said…,’ meaning that he referred to him by his kunya. He was Yaḥyā’s companion and fellow-traveler on that journey.”
It is related from Ibrāhīm ibn Urmah who said: “If two men were to say—one of them, ‘Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us,’ and the other, ‘al-Ramādī narrated to us’—the two reports would be of equal standing.(3)”
Al-Dāraqutnī said: “He is trustworthy.”(4)
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “My father considered him reliable.”(5)
Ibn Makhlad remarked: “Whenever al-Ramādī fell ill, he would seek healing by having people recite hadith in his presence.”