Narrations were also carried from him by Yaḥyā ibn Hāniʾ and Abū Dāwūd al-Aʿmā. He enjoyed high esteem and was renowned for his worship and devotion.

He is classed together with ʿAlqamah and al-Aswad.

He died in the time of Muʿāwiyah, and Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī – may Allah be pleased with him – led his funeral prayer. (1)

23 – Jubayr ibn Nufayr ibn Mālik ibn ʿĀmir al-Ḥaḍramī * (M, 4)

The eminent imām, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥaḍramī, from Ḥimṣ.

He lived during the lifetime of the Prophet ﷺ.

He transmitted from: Abū Bakr – it is possible that he actually met him – and from ʿUmar, al-Miqdād, Abū Dharr, Abū al-Dardāʾ, ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit, ʿĀʾishah, Abū Hurayrah, and several others.

Those who narrated from him include his son ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Makḥūl, Khālid ibn Maʿdān, Abū al-Zāhiriyyah Ḥudayr ibn Kurayb, Rabīʿah ibn Yazīd, Shuraḥbīl ibn Muslim, Sulaym ibn ʿĀmir, and others.

Sulaym ibn ʿĀmir related from him that he said:

“I accepted Islam from its very beginning, and ever since I have seen among people both the upright and the corrupt.” (2)

Jubayr was counted among the scholars of Greater Syria.

Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr said: “Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us; Bashīr ibn Kurayb narrated to me …”