حَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْجَهْضَمِيُّ ، حَدَّثَنَا الأَصْمَعِيُّ ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ، قَالَ : " أَدْرَكْتُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ مِائَةً ، كُلُّهُمْ مَأْمُونٌ ، مَا يُؤْخَذُ عَنْهُمُ الْحَدِيثُ ، يُقَالُ : لَيْسَ مِنْ أَهْلِهِ
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 [transmitters] 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’.’