Part Five
1 – Abū Burdah ibn Abī Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, may Allah be pleased with him.
His full name is ʿAbd Allah ibn Qays ibn Ḥaḍḍār al-Ashʿarī. He was a jurist, a towering scholar, and the judge of Kūfa.
He transmitted hadith from his father; ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib; al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām; Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān; ʿAbd Allah ibn Salām; Abū Hurayrah; and others.
Among those who narrated from him were his grandson Abū Burdah Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Burdah; his son, the governor Bilāl ibn Abī Burdah; Thābit al-Bunānī; Qatādah; Bukayr ibn al-Ashajj; Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī; his son Saʿīd ibn Abī Burdah; Ṭalḥah ibn Yaḥyā; Ḥakīm ibn Daylam; Abū Yūsuf; Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl; Abū Ḥuṣayn; ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Abī al-Masāwir; and many others besides.
He was a vessel of knowledge and, by unanimous agreement, a decisive authority. It is said that his given name was ʿĀmir. He served as judge of Kūfa after Shurayḥ for a time until al-Ḥajjāj removed him and appointed his brother, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Mūsā, in his stead.
ʿAbd Allah ibn Wahb said: Ibn ʿAyyāsh (1) al-Qitbānī narrated to us, from his father, that Yazīd ibn—