had been miscopied, for al-Nasāʾī would never say “not reliable” of a man whose narrations he himself includes. The narrator in question belongs to the same generation as al-Sammān, although he lived on for roughly twenty years after him.
12 – Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Ḥanafī al-Kūfī * (M, D, S)
He is said to be ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Qays.
He transmitted reports from ʿAlī, Ibn Masʿūd, and Abū Hurayrah.
Among those who narrated from him are Bayān ibn Bishr, Ibn Abī Khālid, Saʿīd—the father of Sufyān al-Thawrī—and a number of others.
Ibn Maʿīn declared him reliable, though he was not a prolific transmitter.
13 – Ṭāwūs ibn Kaysān al-Fārisī ** (ʿ)
The jurist, exemplary model, and leading scholar of Yemen; Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fārisī, later known as al-Yamanī, al-Janadī, the ḥāfiẓ.
He was one of the Persian youths whom Kisrā had sent to seize Yemen on his behalf.
It is said that he was the client of Bahīr ibn Raysān al-Ḥimyarī, while others state that his allegiance was to the tribe of Hamdān.
I think he was born during the reign of
(*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat, 2/615; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 5/338; al-Fasawi, al-Tarikh, 2/615; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa al-Taʿdil, 5/276; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 813; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 2/226/1; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 4/78; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 6/256; Ibn Hajar, Khulasa Tadhhib al-Kamal, 233.
(* *) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat, 5/537; Khalifah, al-Tabaqat, 287; Khalifah, al-Tarikh, 236; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 4/365; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Saghir, 1/252; al-Fasawi, al-Tarikh, 1/705; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa al-Taʿdil, 4/500; Abu Nuʿaym, Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ, 4/3, 23; al-Shirazi, Tabaqat al-Fuqahaʾ, 73; Ibn al-Athir, al-Lubab, 1/241; al-Nawawi, Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ wa-l-Lughat, 1/251; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Aʿyan, 2/509; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 623; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 2/101/2; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 4/126; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 1/90; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, 1/130; Ibn al-Jazari, Tabaqat al-Qurraʾ, 1/341; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 5/8; Ibn Taghribirdi, al-Nujum al-Zahira, 1/260; al-Dhahabi, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, 34; Ibn Hajar, Khulasa Tadhhib al-Kamal, 181; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharāt al-Dhahab, 1/133.
(1) The nisba denotes a large, fertile town in Yemen inhabited by a branch of the Khawlan tribe. Muʿadh ibn Jabal built its main mosque when he resided there, and the scholar Tawus later settled in the town, hence the attribution.