He is counted among the Companions, even though he did not transmit any reports. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr considered his status as a Companion debatable, and Ibn Ḥibbān listed him among the Successors (tābiʿūn). (*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt, 7/367; al-Balādhurī, Nasab Quraysh, p. 27; Khalīfa, al-Ṭabaqāt, no. 1973; Ibn Ḥabīb, al-Muhabbar, pp. 17, 46, 107; al-Bukhārī, al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr, 7/194, and al-Tārīkh al-Ṣaghīr, 1/142; Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl, 7/145; al-Balādhurī, Ansāb al-Ashrāf, 3/65; Ibn Ḥazm, Jamharat Ansāb al-ʿArab, p. 19; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istīʿāb, no. 1304; al-Dhahabī, al-Jamʿ bayna Rijāl al-Ṣaḥīḥayn, 2/427; Ibn al-Athīr, Usud al-Ghābah, 4/392; al-Nawawī, Tahdhīb al-Asmāʾ wa-l-Lughāt, 1/2/59; al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, no. 1125; al-Dhahabī, Tārīkh al-Islām, 2/311, and al-ʿIbar, 1/61; al-Dhahabī, Tadhhīb al-Tahdhīb, 3/157b; al-Yāfiʿī, Mirʾāt al-Jinān, 1/138; Ibn Kathīr, al-Bidāya wa-l-Nihāya, 8/78; al-Fāsī, al-ʿAqd al-Thamīn, 7/67; Ibn Ḥajar, al-Iṣāba, 3/226, and Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb, 8/361; al-Khazrajī, Khulāṣat Tadhhīb al-Kamāl, p. 271; Ibn al-ʿImād, Shadharāt al-Dhahab, 1/61. (1) This symbol refers to al-Nasāʾī’s work Khaṣāʾiṣ Amīr al-Muʾminīn ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib. (2) Related by al-Bukhārī in his al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr (7/194) and by Aḥmad (1/205) through the chain: Rūḥ b. ʿUbāda – Ibn Jurayj – Jaʿfar b. Khālid b. Sāra al-Makhzūmī – his father – ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar, who said: “While Qutham, ʿUbayd Allāh b. ʿAbbās and I were playing, the Prophet ﷺ passed by on his mount. He said, ‘Lift this one up to me,’ and seated me in front of him; then he said to Qutham, ‘Lift this one up to me,’ and seated him behind him …” All the transmitters are reliable. (3) Related by Aḥmad (6/339) through the chain: Yaḥyā b. Bukayr – Isrāʾīl – Sammāk b. Ḥarb – Qābūs b. Mikhrāq – Umm al-Faḍl, who said: “I dreamed that a part of the body of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was in my house, and I became alarmed. I went to the Prophet and told him. He said, ‘It is a good sign: Fāṭima will give birth to a boy, and you will nurse him with the milk of your own son Qutham.’ Fāṭima then gave birth to al-Ḥasan, and I suckled him.”