Al-Muqriʾ related: Ibn Lahiʿah narrated to us; Ibn Hubayrah narrated to me; I heard Abū Tamīm al-Jayshānī say, “Muʿādh taught me the Qur’an when the Prophet ﷺ dispatched him to Yemen.” (1)
Al-Aʿmash also transmitted, from Ibrāhīm, who said: Ibn Masʿūd stated, “When Muʿādh arrived, the Prophet ﷺ said to me, ‘Teach him to recite.’ So I recited to him whatever I had memorised, and thereafter he and I would go together to the Messenger of Allah, who would teach us both.”
Saʿīd ibn ʿUfayr said: “Abū Tamīm passed away in the year 77 AH.” (2)
20 – Abū Sālim al-Jayshānī, Sufyān ibn Hāniʾ al-Miṣrī * (M, D, S)
Narrated from: Abū Dharr, ʿAlī, and Zayd ibn Khālid.
Narrators from him: his son Sālim; Bakr ibn Sawādah; Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb; ʿUbayd Allah ibn Abī Jaʿfar; and his grandson Saʿīd ibn Sālim.
He witnessed the conquest of Egypt.
21 – Murrah al-Ṭayyib ibn Sharāḥīl al-Hamdānī al-Kūfī ** (ʿ)
He was also called Murrah al-Khayr (“Murrah the Good”) because of his devotion, virtue, and knowledge.
He is Murrah ibn Sharāḥīl al-Hamdānī, from Kūfa, a muḥaḍram who held a distinguished position.
(1) All the transmitters are reliable; “al-Muqri” is Abd Allah ibn Yazid, and his narration from Ibn Lahiʿa is sound.
(2) Another opinion dates his death to the year 78 AH; see Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 7/510. In Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 4/122, Ibn Yunus states that he died in Alexandria during the governorship of Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan.
(*) Al-Bukhari, Tarikh, 4/87; Yaʿqub al-Fasawi, Maʿrifa wa-l-tarikh, 2/463; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-taʿdil, first part of vol. 2, p. 219; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-ghaba, 2/322; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-kamal, pp. 517, 1613; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 3/217, 318; Ibn Hajar, al-Isaba, no. 3689; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-tahdhib, 4/122; Ibn Hajar, Khulasa tadhhib al-kamal, p. 146.
(**) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 6/116; Khalifa ibn Khayyat, Tabaqat, no. 1071; Al-Bukhari, Tarikh, 8/5; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-taʿdil, first part of vol. 4, p. 366; Abu Nuʿaym, Hilyat al-awliya, 4/161; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-kamal, p. 1316; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 3/303; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-huffaz, 1/63; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-tahdhib, 10/88; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-huffaz, p. 26; Ibn Hajar, Khulasa tadhhib al-kamal, p. 372; al-Dawudi, Tabaqat al-mufassirin, 2/317.