and Abū ʿAwanah, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Muḥammad ibn al-Musayyab al-Arghiyānī, Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf the judge, Ibn Mujāhid the Qur’an reciter, Ibn Abī Dāwūd, Muḥammad ibn Makhlad, al-Maḥāmilī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Dārakī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāmiḍ (1), Muḥammad ibn al-Mundhir Shakkar, Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥakīm al-Madīnī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, the nephew of Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim, and many others besides them.
He was born sometime around the year 190 AH.
Al-Nasāʾī remarked, “He is reliable, a man devoted to ḥadith.”
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said, “Reliable and truthful; I found Abū Zurʿah revering him and showing him great honour.”
ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Aḥmad reported, “Abū Zurʿah would never stand up for anyone, nor seat anyone in his own place—except Ibn Wārah.”
Faḍlak al-Rāzī related: “I heard Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah say, ‘Among all those I have seen, the strongest memories belong to Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt (2), Ibn Wārah, and Abū Zurʿah (3).’”
Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī said, “Three scholars of the age, unsurpassed in ḥadith expertise, met together in Rayy; in their time there was no one on earth like them.” He then named Ibn Wārah, Abū Ḥātim, and Abū Zurʿah.