let those who come after you follow yours—people will keep lagging behind until Allah relegates them to the rear.’
Both reports were recorded by Muslim (1) through the chain of Abu al-Ashhab.
- Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr, Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Muzani
The imam, exemplar, preacher, and authoritative scholar, Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Muzani of Basra, one of the luminaries who is mentioned alongside al-Hasan and Ibn Sirin.
He narrated from al-Mughira ibn Shuʿba, Ibn ʿAbbas, Ibn ʿUmar, Anas ibn Malik, Abu Rafiʿ the goldsmith, and a number of others.
Among those who transmitted from him are Thabit al-Bunani, ʿAsim al-Aḥwal, Sulayman al-Taymi, Habib al-ʿAjami, Humayd al-Tawil, Qatadah, Ghalib al-Qattan, Abu ʿAmir Salih al-Khazzaz, Mubarak ibn Fadala, Salih al-Murry, his son ʿAbd Allah ibn Bakr, and many others.
Muhammad ibn Saʿd al-Katib (2) said: “Bakr al-Muzani was trustworthy, firmly grounded, prolific in hadith, authoritative, and a jurist.”
Sulayman al-Taymi said: “Al-Hasan is the shaykh of Basra, and Bakr al-Muzani is its youth.” (3)
ʿAbd Allah ibn Bakr said: My sister informed me, saying, “Your father had imposed upon…"