He narrated in Egypt from ʿAffān ibn Muslim, ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī, and Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah. Those who transmitted from him include al-Ṭabarānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥayyūyah, and a number of others. Al-Khaṭīb declared him reliable (1). He passed away in 293 AH.

288 – al-Qattāt, Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Kūfī *

The long-lived muḥaddith, Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Kūfī. He heard ḥadith from Abū Nuʿaym, Aḥmad ibn Yūnus, and several others. Among those who narrated from him are Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Jiʿābī, Sulaymān al-Ṭabarānī, and al-Ḥasan ibn Jaʿfar al-Ḥurafī—the brother of al-Ḥusayn ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb al-Kūfī.

Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb said, “He was weak … people questioned his hearing from Abū Nuʿaym (2).” He died in Baghdad in Jumādā al-Ūlā, 300 AH, and in that same month another centenarian scholar passed away with him.