the Messenger of Allah’s ﷺ paternal uncle, al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib—Shaybah ibn Hāshim, whose given name was ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Manāf ibn Quṣayy ibn Kilāb ibn Murrah ibn Kaʿb ibn Luʾayy ibn Ghālib ibn Fihr, the Qurashi, the Hāshimid, the Meccan, the Emir—may Allah be pleased with him.
Birth: in the Banū Hāshim quarter (shiʿb) (1), three years before the Hijra.
He kept the company of the Prophet ﷺ for about thirty months and transmitted from him a sound corpus of hadith.
He also narrated from ʿUmar, ʿAlī, Muʿādh, his own father, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, Abū Sufyān Ṣakhr ibn Ḥarb, Abū Dharr, Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, Zayd ibn Thābit, and many others.
He recited the Quran to Ubayy and Zayd, while among those who later recited it to him were Mujāhid, Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, and a number of their peers.
Those who transmitted hadith from him include his son ʿAlī; his nephew ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maʿbad; his freedmen ʿIkrimah, Miqsam, Kurayb, and Abū Maʿbad Nāfiʿ; Anas ibn Mālik; Abū al-Ṭufayl; Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl; his brother Kathīr ibn al-ʿAbbās; ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh; Ṭāwūs; Abū al-Shaʿthāʾ Jābir; ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn; Saʿīd ibn Jubayr; Mujāhid ibn Jabr; al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad; Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sammān; Abū Rajāʾ al-ʿAṭāridī; Abū al-ʿĀliyah; ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr; his son ʿAbd Allāh; ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maʿbad; and Arbadah al-Tamīmī.