he narrated from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, Ibn ʿAbbās, and Abū Hurayrah, as well as from ʿUbaydah al-Salmānī and Muṭarrif ibn ʿAbd Allāh. Those who related hadith from him include his son ʿAbd Allāh, Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, Ibn Isḥāq, Nāfiʿ ibn ʿUmar al-Jumaḥī, and a number of others.
Ibn Saʿd said, “He died at the very beginning of Hishām’s caliphate.” I say: He most likely passed away around 110 AH. The scholars are unanimous in using his narrations as proof. His son ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Hind died in 147 AH. Al-Bukhārī transmits—through a single intermediary—from him, and that is among the elevated isnāds in his Ṣaḥīḥ.
- ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abān al-Umawī * (4)
The son of ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, a Qurashī of the Umayyad house and one of those deemed fit for the caliphate. He narrated only a few reports from his father. Among those who transmitted from him are ʿUmar ibn Sulaymān, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ḥazm, and Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Taymī.
Mūsā al-Taymī said, “I have never seen anyone who combined religious devotion, worldly position, and noble lineage more completely than he did.”
It was also said that he would purchase members of the Prophet’s household, clothe them, set them free, and say, “I seek their help in the throes of death (1).” He died while asleep in his mosque. It was likewise reported that he was given to abundant worship.