- ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿUbayd ibn Khalaf al-Khuzāʿī (ʿ)
The exemplar, the Imām, companion of the Messenger of Allah, Abū Nujayd al-Khuzāʿī.
He and his father, together with Abū Hurayrah, embraced Islam at the same time, in the year 7 AH.
He transmitted numerous hadiths.
He served as the judge of Basra; ʿUmar had sent him to the people of Basra ⦗1⦘ to teach them their religion. Al-Ḥasan would swear, “No one ever arrived in Basra who was better for them than ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn.”
Those who narrated from him include: Muṭarrif ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Shikhkhīr, Abū Rajāʾ al-ʿAṭāridī, Zuhdam al-Jarmī, Zurārah ibn Awfā, al-Ḥasan, Ibn Sīrīn, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Buraydah, al-Shaʿbī, ʿAṭāʾ the client of ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn, al-Ḥakam ibn al-Aʿraj, and many others.
Zurārah said, “I saw ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn wearing khazz ⦗2⦘.”
Muṭarrif ibn ʿAbd Allāh related: ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn said to me, “I shall narrate a report that, Allah willing, will benefit you:
The Messenger of Allah combined ḥajj and ʿumrah, and he never forbade it until he passed away. No Qur’anic revelation was sent down prohibiting it, and he used to greet me—that is,