ʿAbd al-Razzāq—Maʿmar related to us, from al-Zuhrī, who said: Abu Salama informed me, from Abu Hurayra:
“I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say about the black seed (shūnīz): ‘Make use of this black seed, for it contains a cure for every disease except al-sām,’ ⦗1⦘ meaning death.
43 – Al-Saʿīdānī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī *
The Imām, ḥadith scholar, and teacher: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muʿāwiya, the Qurashi, Umayyad, ʿAttābī, Saʿīdānī, Basran, and market inspector (muḥtasib), a descendant of ʿAttāb ibn Asīd, whom the Prophet ﷺ appointed over Mecca at the time of its conquest. ⦗2⦘
His birth occurred in 409 AH.
In 418 AH he heard ḥadith from ʿAlī ibn Hārūn al-Mālikī, and from Ṭalḥa ibn
(1) Reported by al-Bukhari (no. 5688) in the Book of Medicine; Muslim (no. 2215) in the Book of Greetings; al-Tirmidhi (no. 2041) in the Book of Medicine; and Ibn Majah (no. 3447) in the Book of Medicine, all through the isnad of Abu Salama ibn Abd al-Rahman and Said ibn al-Musayyab, from Abu Hurayra.
Also recorded by Ahmad, 2/241, 261, 268, 423, 429, and 504, through Abu Salama from Abu Hurayra.
Ahmad further transmits it at 2/389 and 484, through al-Ala ibn Abd al-Rahman, from his father, from Abu Hurayra; at 2/468 and 538, through Qatada, from Hilal ibn Yazid, from Abu Hurayra; and at 2/510, through Said ibn al-Musayyab from Abu Hurayra.
A parallel narration from Aisha appears in al-Bukhari (no. 5687), Ahmad 6/138 and 146, and Ibn Majah (no. 3449).
(*) No biographical notice for him was found in the sources we consulted.
(2) For the biography of Utab ibn Usayd, see: al-Istiyab, 3/1023–1024; Usd al-Ghabah, 3/556–557; Nasab Quraysh, p. 187; and al-Isabah, 2/451–452.