, al-Shaybānī, Ibn Shihāb, Ajlaḥ al-Kindī, ʿAlī ibn Bazīmah, Yazīd ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir—though the chain that links him is disputed—Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, Layth ibn Abī Sulaym, Abū Janāb al-Kalbī, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAtāʾ, and others.

His mother was Barzah al-Hilāliyya (1), the sister of the Mother of the Believers, of Umm al-Faḍl Lubābah the Elder (2), and of ʿIṣmah, the mother of Khālid ibn al-Walīd (3).

He transmitted a great many hadith—so says Ibn Saʿd.

He was declared reliable by al-ʿIjlī, Abū Zurʿah, al-Nasāʾī, and others.

Hishām ibn al-Kalbī said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ renamed al-Aṣamm ‘ʿAbd al-Raḥmān’ and wrote a deed for him concerning the hundred head [of livestock] for which he had embraced Islam at Dhuʾl-Qaṣṣah (4).”

He added: “He was among the People of the Shade—that is, the Companions of the Veranda (ṣuffah) (5).”

Ibn ʿAmmār al-Mawṣilī said: “He was the sister’s son of Maymūnah, and she was the one who reared him (6).”

Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated—from Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī—who said: “I entered the mosque with al-Shaʿbī, and he asked, ‘Do you see any of our companions with whom we could sit?’ He looked around and saw