78 – Zayd ibn Wahb Abū Sulaymān al-Juhanī al-Kūfī *
A leading imām and authoritative proof, Abū Sulaymān al-Juhanī of Kūfa was a veteran mukhaḍram of the earliest generation.
He set out intending to meet the Prophet ﷺ and keep his company, but—according to what has reached us—the Prophet ﷺ passed away while Zayd was still on the road.
He heard narrations from ʿUmar, ʿAlī, Ibn Masʿūd, Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī, Hudhayfah ibn al-Yamān, and a number of others, and he studied the Quran under Ibn Masʿūd.
Among those who transmitted from him are Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Rufayʿ, Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Sulaymān al-Aʿmash, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, and many more.
He died sometime after the Battle of al-Jamājim ⦗1⦘, around the year 83 AH.
Ibn Saʿd ⦗2⦘ said, “He was present with ʿAlī in all his engagements.”
During ʿUmar’s caliphate he took part in the campaign to Azerbaijan.
Al-Aʿmash said, “I saw him dyeing his beard yellow.”
Ibn Saʿd judged him reliable.
79 – Ḥafṣ ibn ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb al-Qurashī ** (ʿ)
An ʿUmarid, a Medinan, and a jurist.
(*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqāt, 6/102; Khalīfa, al-Tabaqāt, no. 1149; al-Bukhārī, al-Tārīkh, 3/407; Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Jarḥ wa-l-taʿdīl, vol. 1, part 2, p. 574; Abū Nuʿaym, al-Ḥilya, 4/171; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istiʿāb, no. 861; Ibn al-Athīr, Usd al-Ghāba, 2/243; al-Nawawī, Tahdhīb al-asmāʾ wa-l-lugāt, part 1 of vol. 1, p. 205; al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, p. 458; al-Dhahabī, Tārīkh al-Islām, 3/251 and 369; al-Dhahabī, Tadhkirat al-ḥuffāẓ, 1/62; al-Dhahabī, Tadhhīb al-tahdhīb, 1/255; Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya, no. 1309; Ibn Ḥajar, al-Iṣāba, no. 3001; Ibn Ḥajar, Tahdhīb al-tahdhīb, 3/427; Ibn Taghrībirdī, al-Nujūm al-zāhira, 1/201; al-Suyūṭī, Ṭabaqāt al-ḥuffāẓ, p. 25; Khulāṣat tadhhīb al-tahdhīb, p. 129.
(1) Dayr al-Jamājim stands on the outskirts of Kufa, seven parasangs away, at the edge of the desert on the road to Basra. It was here that the battle between al-Ḥajjāj and Ibn al-Ashʿath took place, in which Ibn al-Ashʿath was routed and many Qurʾān-reciters were killed. For the account, see al-Ṭabarī, 6/357.
(2) Al-Tabaqāt, 6/102–103.
(* *) Khalīfa, al-Tabaqāt, no. 2121; al-Bukhārī, al-Tārīkh, 2/359; Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿārif, p. 188; Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Jarḥ wa-l-taʿdīl, vol. 1, part 2, p. 184; al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, p. 303; al-Dhahabī, Tārīkh al-Islām, 3/359; …