and the exegete; Abū Ṣāliḥ Bādhām; Ṭalīq ibn Qays al-Ḥanafī; ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ; al-Shaʿbī; al-Ḥasan; Ibn Sīrīn; Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī; Shahr ibn Ḥawshab; Ibn Abī Mulaykah; ʿAmr ibn Dīnār; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī Yazīd; Abū Jamrah Naṣr ibn ʿImrān al-Ḍubāʿī; al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Muzāḥim; Abū al-Zubayr al-Makkī; Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī; Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit; Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Ḥasan; Ismāʿīl al-Suddī; and a host of others besides them.
According to al-Tahdhīb, two hundred individuals transmitted ḥadith from him, in addition to three other persons.
His mother was Umm al-Faḍl, Lubābah bint al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥazn ibn Bujayr al-Hilāliyyah, of the clan of Hilāl ibn ʿĀmir.
He had several children. The eldest was al-ʿAbbās—after whom his kunya was taken—while the youngest was ʿAlī, known as Abū al-Khulafāʾ. The others were al-Faḍl, Muḥammad, ʿUbayd Allāh, Lubābah, and Asmāʾ.
He was handsome and striking, tall in stature, awe-inspiring, of sound intellect and noble soul—one of the truly outstanding men.
His sons al-Faḍl, Muḥammad, and ʿUbayd Allāh died without leaving offspring.
Lubābah, however, bore children and left descendants through her husband ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Abī Ṭālib, while his other daughter, Asmāʾ, married her cousin ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās and bore him Ḥasan and Ḥusayn.
Ibn ʿAbbās moved with his parents to the Abode of Emigration in the Year of the Conquest, having already embraced Islam beforehand, for it is authentically reported that he said, “My mother and I were among the oppressed: I was one of the children, and my mother was among the women.” (1)