Al-Dāraquṭnī said, “There is a difference of opinion regarding his status as a Companion.”
Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated from Shuraḥbīl ibn Muslim, who said, “I saw Abū ʿInabah; he and Abū Fālij al-Anmārī had eaten blood during the pre-Islamic era, and neither of them kept company with the Prophet ﷺ.” (1)
79 – Muḥammad ibn Ḥāṭib ibn al-Ḥārith al-Jumahī * (T, S, Q)
He is also reported as Muḥammad ibn Maʿmar ibn Ḥabīb al-Jumahī.
He and his brother al-Ḥārith were born in Abyssinia, where their father passed away. Their grandfather Ḥabīb was one of the elders of Quraysh; he was the son of Wahb ibn Ḥudḥāfah ibn Jumāḥ ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥuṣayṣ ibn Kaʿb ibn Luʾayy ibn Ghālib.
His mother was among the Emigrants; she was Umm Jamīl bint al-Mujallal.
He was a Companion and transmitted the hadith about beating the duff (hand-drum) at weddings. (2)
He also narrates from ʿAlī.
(1) Reported by Abu Zur‘a in Tarikh Dimashq, vol. 1, pp. 351-352, through Walid b. Utbah from Walid b. Muslim with the same chain. It is also cited in: Khalifa, Tabaqat, nos. 141, 2513; Ibn Qutayba, Al-Muhabbar, pp. 153, 379; al-Bukhari, Al-Tarikh al-Kabir, vol. 1, p. 17; al-Fasawi, Maʿrifa wa-t-Tarikh, vol. 1, p. 306; Ibn Abi Hatim, Al-Jarh wa-t-Taʿdil, vol. 7, p. 224; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, Al-Istīʿāb, p. 1368; Ibn Hazm, Jumharat Ansab al-Arab, p. 162; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghabah, vol. 5, p. 85; al-Nawawi, Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ wa-l-Lughat, vol. 1/1, p. 79; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 1184; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 3, p. 207; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 3, pp. 195-196; al-Safadi, Al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, vol. 2, p. 317; al-Haythami, Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid, vol. 9, p. 415; al-Yafiʿi, Mirʾat al-Janan, vol. 1, p. 155; Ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, Al-ʿIqd al-Thamin, vol. 1, p. 450; Ibn Hajar, Al-Isaba, vol. 3, p. 372; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 9, p. 106; Khalil, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 282; Ibn Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 1, p. 82.
(2) Related by Ahmad, Musnad, 3/418 and 4/259; al-Tirmidhi, no. 1088; al-Nasaʾi, 6/127; and Ibn Majah, no. 1896 (Book of Marriage, “Chapter on announcing the marriage”) with the wording: “The line separating what is lawful from what is unlawful is the sound and the duff at a wedding.” Al-Tirmidhi graded it hasan and added, “and that is its most complete form.” Al-Hakim declared it sahih (2/184) and al-Dhahabi agreed.