Al-Athram related: It was put to Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Ḥanbal, “Is Shurayḥ ibn Hāniʾ a sound transmitter of hadith?” He replied, “Yes; he belongs to a very early generation indeed.”
Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ said (1): “In the year 98 AH al-Ḥajjāj appointed ʿUbayd Allah ibn Abī Bakrah over Sijistān. ʿUbayd Allah then dispatched his son Abū Barḍaʿah, but he was captured at the mountain defile (2); Shurayḥ ibn Hāniʾ was killed, and the Muslims were struck by severe hardship and hunger until most of that army perished.”
34 – Kharashah ibn al-Ḥurr * (ʿ)
He settled in Kūfah. His brother Salāmah enjoyed Companionship, and Kharashah had been an orphan under ʿUmar’s care.
He narrated from: ʿUmar, Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī, and ʿAbd Allah ibn Salām.
Those who reported from him include: Ribʿī ibn Ḥirāsh, Abū Zurʿah al-Bajalī, al-Musayyab ibn Rāfiʿ, Sulaymān ibn Mus-hir, and others.
Reliable by unanimous agreement.
Died: in 74 AH.
35 – Mālik al-Sarāyā, Abū Ḥakīm Mālik ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Khathʿamī **
The commander, Abū Ḥakīm Mālik ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Khathʿamī, a Palestinian.
Some claim he was a Companion, but that is not established.
He was among the champions of Islam; he led the summer expeditionary armies on forty—