حدثنا نصر بن علي الجهضمي، حدثنا الأصمعي، عن ابن أبي الزناد، عن أبيه قال: " أدركت بالمدينة مائة، كلهم مأمون، ما يؤخذ عنهم الحديث، يقال: ليس من أهله "
Nasr bin Alī al-Jahdhamī narrated to us, al-Asma’ī narrated to us, on authority of Ibn Abī-Zinād, on authority of his father, he said: ‘I met one hundred in al-Madīnah, each of whom were reliable. Narrations were not taken from one about who it was said, ‘he is not from its people’.’