165 – Abu Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn al-Harith al-Makhzumi * (ʿ)
The Imam, son of Hisham ibn al-Mughirah ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar ibn Makhzum.
He was one of the Seven Jurists of the Prophet’s City. His teknonym was Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman, and the correct opinion is that his kunya was actually his given name.
A leading figure of Banu Makhzum, he was the father of ʿAbd Allah, Salamah, ʿAbd al-Malik, and ʿUmar, and the brother of ʿAbd Allah, ʿAbd al-Malik, ʿIkrimah, Muhammad, Mughīrah, Yahya, ʿĀʾishah, and Umm al-Harith.
He was blind.
He transmitted hadith from his father; ʿAmmar ibn Yasir; Abu Masʿud al-Ansari; ʿĀʾishah; Umm Salamah; Abu Hurayrah; Nawfal ibn Muʿawiyah; Marwan ibn al-Hakam; ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Muṭīʿ; Abu Rafiʿ, the Prophet’s client; Asmaʾ bint ʿUmays; and many others.
Those who reported from him include his two sons, ʿAbd Allah and ʿAbd al-Malik; Mujahid; ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz; al-Shaʿbi; ʿIrak ibn Malik; ʿUmar ibn Dinar; al-Zuhri; ʿAbd Rabbihi ibn Saʿid; ʿIkrimah ibn Khalid; Sumayy, his freedman; Ibrahim ibn Muhajir; ʿAbd Allah ibn Kaʿb al-Himyari; ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn Ayman; his nephew al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman; and a great many others.
Al-Waqidi said: “His name and kunya were the same. He lost his sight, and on the Day of the Camel he was deemed too young, so he and ʿUrwah were turned back.”
He was trustworthy, a jurist, a scholar, generous, and prolific in hadith. ⦗1⦘