In Ibn Sa’d ( al-Tabaqat...

In Ibn Sa’d ( al-Tabaqat, ii,194) from him, from Muhammad ibn Talhah, from al-A’mash, from ‘Atiyyah, from Abu Sa’id. Tawthiq by Ibn Sa’d, Ibn Mu’in and al-’Ijli. [^8] Yahya ibn Hammad ibn Abi Ziyad al-Shaybani al-Basri (d. 215/830). In al-Nasa'i (al-Khasa'is), al-Hakim (al-Mustadrak), and al-Khwarazmi (al-Manaqib), from Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna, from him, Abu ‘Awanah, from Sulayman, from Habib ibn Abi Thabit, from Abu al-Tufayl, from Zayd ibn Arqam.

Tawthiq by Ibn Sa’d, [^9] Abu Hatim, al-Dhahabi and Ibn Hajar. [^10] Abu Ghassan al-Nahdi Malik ibn Isma’il al-Kufi (d. 219/834). In al-Tahtawi (Mushkil al-athar, iv, 268), from Fahd ibn Sulayman, from him, from Israz ibn Yunus al-Sabis. Tawthiq by Ya'qub ibn Shaybah, Ibn Numayr, Abu Hatim and al-Nasa'i. Mentioned in al-Thiqat by Ibn Hibban. [^11] Muhammad ibn Sa’id ibn Sulayman ibn al-Isfahani (d. 220/835). In al-’Uqayli ( al-du’afa', vi, MS.

F.104) from Muhammad ibn Isma’il, from him, from Hatim ibn Isma’il, from Ja’far ibn Muhammad (A), from his father (A), from Jabir. Tawthiq by al-Nasa'i, mentioned by Ibn Hibban in al-Thiqat. [^12] Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Abdi al-Basri (d. 223/837) In al-Samhudi ( Jawahir al-’iqdayn, ii, MS. F.86) and al-Sakhawi (al-Istijlab, MS. F.22), from him, from Fitr ibn Khalifah and Abu al-Jarud, from Abu al-Tufayl. Tawthiq by Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Abu Hatim. Mentioned by Ibn Hibban in al-Thiqat.

[^13] Sa’id ibn Sulayman al-Wasiti al-Baghdadi (d. 225/839). In al-Tabarani ( al-Mu’jam al-kabir, iii, No. 3052) from Ahmad ibn al-Qasim, from him, from Zayd ibn al-Hasan al-Anmati, from Ma’ruf ibn Kharrabudh, from Abu al-Tufayl; from Hudhayfah ibn Usayd. Tawthiq by Ibn Sa’d, Abu Hatim, al-’Ijli and Ibn Hibban. [^14] ‘Abd Allah ibn Bukayr al-Ghanawi. In al-Tabarani ( al-Mu’jam al-kabir, iii, No.

2681.from Mutayyan, from Ja’far ibn Hamid, from him, from Hakim ibn Zubayr; from Abu al-Tufayl from Zayd ibn Arqam. Mentioned by Ibn Hibban in al-Thiqat. Tasdiq by al-Saji. [^15] Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Habib al-Hashimi al-Baghdadi (d. 215/830). In his book al-Munammaq, p. 9. An eminent scholar and author of several books; has been considered thiqah by al-Suyuti. [^16] Sa’id ibn Mansur al-Khurasani (d. 227/841). In his Sunan with his isnad from Zayd ibn Thabit, as cited in Kanz al-’ummal, i, 47.

Tawthiq by Ibn Numayr, Ibn Khirash, Abu Hatim, Ibn Qani’ and al-Dhahabi; al-Khalili considers his tawthiq unanimous. [^17] A leading traditionist. Dawud ibn ‘Amr al-Dabbi al-Baghdadi (d. 228/842).

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