ʿAdiyy ibn Kaʿb ibn Luʾayy ibn Ghalib, the imām, the exemplar, Shaykh al-Islām, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qurashī al-ʿAdawī—Meccan by birth and later of Madinah.
He accepted Islam while still a boy, then emigrated with his father before reaching puberty. Judged too young on the Day of Uḥud, his first military expedition was the Battle of the Trench, and he was among those who pledged allegiance beneath the tree.
His mother—and the mother of the Mother of the Believers Ḥafṣah—was Zaynab bint Maẓʿūn, sister of ʿUthmān ibn Maẓʿūn al-Jumaḥī.
He transmitted an abundant and beneficial body of knowledge from the Prophet ﷺ, as well as from his father, Abū Bakr, ʿUthmān, ʿAlī, Bilāl, Ṣuhayb, ʿĀmir ibn Rabīʿah, Zayd ibn Thābit, his uncle Zayd, Saʿd, Ibn Masʿūd, ʿUthmān ibn Ṭalḥah, Aslam, his sister Ḥafṣah, ʿĀʾishah, and others.
Those who reported from him include: Ādam ibn ʿAlī, Aslam the freedman of his father, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Dhuaib, Umayyah ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Umawī, Anas ibn Sīrīn, Busr (1) ibn Saʿīd, Bishr ibn Ḥarb, Bishr ibn ʿĀʾidh, Bishr ibn al-Muḥtafiz, Bakr al-Muzanī, his son Bilāl ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Tamīm ibn ʿIyāḍ, Thābit al-Bunānī, Thābit ibn ʿUbayd, Thābit ibn Muḥammad, Thuwair ibn Abī Fākhitah, Jabalah ibn Suḥaym, Jubayr ibn Abī Sulaymān, Jubayr ibn Nufayr, Jumayʿ ibn ʿUmayr, Junayd (2), Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, Ḥabīb ibn Abī Mulaykah, al-Ḥurr ibn al-Ṣayyāḥ, Ḥarmalah the freedman of Usāmah, Ḥarīz—or Abū Ḥarīz—al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, and al-Ḥasan ibn