We also transmit from al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, who said: “No one finer than Abū Bakrah and ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn ever took up residence in Basra.”
Al-Mughīrah narrated—from Shibāk—from an unnamed man—that the tribe of Thaqīf asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to return Abū Bakrah to them as a slave. He replied, “No. He is a freedman of Allah and a freedman of His Messenger.” ⦗1⦘
Yazīd ibn Hārūn reported to us; ʿUyaynah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān related to us; and my father told me that he saw Abū Bakrah—may Allah be pleased with him—wearing a mantle of khazz, a fine woolen fabric whose warp threads were silk. ⦗2⦘
2 – ʿUthmān ibn Ṭalḥah ibn Abī Ṭalḥah ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAbdarī * (M, D)
He is ʿUthmān ibn Ṭalḥah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd al-Dār ibn Quṣayy ibn Kilāb, a Qurashi of the ʿAbd al-Dār clan, one of the custodians (ḥujjāb) of the Kaʿbah.
Custodian of the Sacred House and one of the Emigrants, he made the hijrah to Medina together with Khālid ibn al-Walīd and ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ.
(1) All the transmitters are trustworthy, yet both Mughira b. Muqsim and Shabbak are classed as mudallis, and here they narrate by the ambiguous 'an‘ana formula. The report is found in the Musnad, 4/168, through Yahya b. Adam – al-Mufaddal b. Muhalhil – Mughira; in Ibn Saʿd’s Tabaqat, 7/15, via al-Fadl b. Dukayn – Abu l-Ahwas – Mughira; and in Ahmad’s Musnad through Abu l-Ahwas – Mughira – Shabbak – al-Shaʿbi – an unnamed man from Thaqif.
(2) The chain is sound; the same report also appears in Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 7/16.
(*) Principal sources: Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 5/448; Khalifa, Tabaqat, nos. 73 and 2503; Yaʿqubi, Maʿrifa wa’l-Tarikh, 1/272; Ibn Abi Hatim, Jarh wa Taʿdil, 6/155; al-Tabarani, Muʿjam, 9/53, 55; Ibn Hazm, Jamharat Ansab al-Arab, 127; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istiyab, 1034; al-Damamini, Jamʿ Bayn Rijal al-Sahihayn, 1/352; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh Dimashq, 11/52 b; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghabah, 3/372; idem, al-Kamil, 3/169; al-Nawawi, Tahrib al-Asmaʾ wa’l-Lughat, vol. 1, 320; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, 912; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 1/380 and 2/232; idem, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 3/30/1; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidayah wa’l-Nihayah, 8/23; al-Fasi, al-ʿIqd al-Thamin, 6/21; Ibn Hajar, al-Isabah, no. 5442; idem, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 7/124; al-Khazraji, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, 220.