110 – ʿAbd Allah ibn Shaddād ibn al-Hād al-Laythī, Abū al-Walīd (ʿ)
A jurist, known as Abū al-Walīd; originally a Medinan, later associated with Kūfa.
His mother was Salmā, the sister of Asmāʾ bint ʿUmais.
Salmā had been the wife of Ḥamzah, may Allah be pleased with him; when he was martyred, Shaddād, may Allah be pleased with him, married her, and she bore him ʿAbd Allah during the Prophet’s lifetime ﷺ.
He narrated from his father, Muʿādh ibn Jabal, ʿAlī, Ibn Masʿūd, Ṭalḥah ibn ʿUbayd Allah, ʿĀʾishah, Umm Salamah, and a host of others.
Among those who reported from him are al-Ḥakam ibn ʿUtaybah, Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir, ʿAbd Allah ibn Shubruma, Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī, Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, Dhurr al-Hamdānī, Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAmmār al-Duhni, and others.
Khalīfah counted him among the Successors of Kūfa.
Ibn Saʿd, placing him in the first tier of the Medinan Successors, said: “He related from ʿUmar and ʿAlī; he was reliable, transmitted few hadiths, and leaned toward the Shiʿah.” (1)
Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar said: “He used to visit Kūfa often; he eventually settled there and went out with Ibn…"