He heard from: Yazid ibn Harun, Wahb ibn Jarir, Yaʿla ibn ʿUbayd, Abu Ahmad al-Zubayri, Saʿid ibn ʿAmir, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAbd al-Warith al-Tannuri, Abu ʿAli al-Hanafi, Salm ibn Salam al-Wasiti, Muʿalla ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman, Abu ʿAsim al-Nabil, Saʿid ibn Salam al-ʿAttar, Muslim ibn Ibrahim, ʿAmr ibn ʿAsim, Sulayman ibn Harb, and many others.
Those who narrated from him include: Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah, Ibrahim al-Harbi, Yahya ibn Saʿid, Ibrahim ibn ʿArafah, ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi Hatim, Muhammad ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Bakhtari, Abu Saʿid ibn al-Aʿrabi, Ismaʿil al-Saffar, Ahmad ibn Sulayman al-ʿAbbadani, and others.
Abu Hatim said, “Reliable.”(1)
Al-Daraqutni said, “Trustworthy.”(2)
I say: two fascicles of his narrations have reached me.
He passed away in Shawwal of the year 266 AH.
Abu al-ʿAbbas Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Hamid ibn ʿAbd al-Hadi al-Maqdisi informed us; the two jurists ʿAbd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad and ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Ibrahim likewise informed us, saying:
Shuhdah the scribe told us; al-Husayn ibn Ahmad informed us; ʿAli ibn Muhammad al-Muʿaddal informed us; Muhammad ibn ʿAmr al-Razzaz narrated to us; Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik narrated to us; Bishr ibn ʿUmar al-Zahrani narrated to us; Hisham ibn Saʿd narrated to us, from Saʿid ibn