87 – Abū Qatādah al-Anṣārī al-Sulamī, al-Ḥārith ibn Ribʿī*
He was the Prophet’s cavalryman. He fought at Uhud and al-Ḥudaybiyyah and transmitted a number of hadiths.
His name, according to the soundest view, is al-Ḥārith ibn Ribʿī.
Others have said his name was al-Nuʿmān, while another view holds it was ʿAmr.
Those who narrated from him include: Anas ibn Mālik, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, ʿUlayy ibn Rabāḥ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rabāḥ al-Anṣārī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maʿbad al-Zimmānī, ʿAmr ibn Sulaym al-Zurqī, Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Maʿbad ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik, his son ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Qatādah, his freedman Nāfiʿ, and others.
Iyās ibn Salamah ibn al-Akwaʿ narrated—from his father—that the Prophet ﷺ said, “The best of our horsemen is Abū Qatādah, and the best of our foot soldiers is Salamah ibn al-Akwaʿ.” (1)
Al-Wāqidī said: “Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Qatādah related to me, from his mother, from…"
(*) Musnad Ahmad, vol. 4, p. 383 and vol. 5, p. 295; Ibn Saad, Tabaqat, vol. 6, p. 15; Ibn Maʿin, Tarikh, p. 720; Khalifa, Tarikh, pp. 99, 105, 201, 223; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, vol. 2, pp. 258-259; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, vol. 3, p. 74; al-Tabarani, al-Muʿjam al-Kabir, vol. 3, p. 270; al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak, vol. 3, p. 480; al-Tusi, al-Istibsar, pp. 146-148; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istīʿab, vol. 4, p. 1731; Ibn ʿAsakir, MS Paris 218/2; Ibn al-Athir, Jamiʿ al-Usul, vol. 9, pp. 77-78; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghabah, vol. 6, p. 250; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 1637; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 2, pp. 188, 191; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, vol. 1, p. 60; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 12, pp. 204-205; Ibn Hajar, al-Isaba, vol. 11, p. 302; al-Khawarizmi, Khulasa Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 457; al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Kanz al-ʿUmmal, vol. 13, p. 617.
(1) Al-Tabarani records this report (no. 3270) through Abu al-Walid al-Tayalisi, from ʿIkrima ibn ʿAmmar, with this same chain; its isnad is hasan (reliable). The hadith is likewise found in Musnad Ahmad, vol. 4, pp. 52-53, and in Muslim (no. 1807) within the extended narration of the expedition of Dhu Qarad, transmitted through several routes from ʿIkrima ibn ʿAmmar.
Siyar, vol. 2, p. 29.