He heard from Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Zaʿfarānī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, Abū Zurʿah, al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-Bayrūtī, Abū Bakr al-Ṣaghānī, and their peers.
Those who narrated from him include Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Akhram, Abū ʿAlī al-Naysābūrī, Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim, Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Khuzaimah, Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī, Abū Bakr ibn Mihrān the Qurʾān-reciter, and others.
He met Ḥājib ibn Sulaymān in Manbij.
He gathered traditions and composed works.
He was born in 239 AH and died in 318 AH.
Al-Ḥākim Abū ʿAbd Allāh recorded his biography, saying: “He was the son-in-law of Budayl al-Isfarāyinī and was counted among the most reliable and exacting scholars in all regions.”
Abū al-Faḍl Ibn Tāj al-Umanaʾ informed us; Abū Rūḥ ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad related to us; Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir told us; Abū Saʿd the littérateur told us; Abū Bakr Ibn Mihrān reported to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muslim narrated to us; Yūsuf ibn Muslim narrated to us; Khalaf ibn Tamīm narrated to us; Abū Rajāʾ ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wāqid al-Harawī, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk, from Ibn ʿAbbās, reported:
from the Prophet ﷺ who said: “There is no day on which Allah does not free people from the Fire, except on Friday; on Friday there is no hour without Allah freeing servants of His from the Fire.”
Abū Rajāʾ is the sole transmitter of this report, and he is lenient—that is, weak—in ḥadīth (1).