And ‘Uthmān ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us, saying: ‘Abdah ibn Sulaymān and Ḥumayd ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān informed us. (Another chain:) And Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us, saying: ‘Abd al-Raḥīm ibn Sulaymān narrated to us. (Another chain:) And Abū Kurayb narrated to us, saying: Abū Usāmah narrated to us. All of them narrated from Hishām with this chain of transmission, similar to the ḥadīth of Ibn Numayr from Ḥumayd ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Ru’āsī. And in the ḥadīth of ‘Abd al-Raḥīm and Abū Usāmah: “And at that time he was of value.”