and Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd, Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāt, Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim, Khuṣayf al-Jazarī, Rabāḥ ibn Abī Maʿrūf al-Makki, Raqaba ibn Maṣqala, al-Zubayr ibn Khurayq, Zayd ibn Abī Unaysa, Ṭalḥa ibn ʿAmr al-Makki, ʿAbbād ibn Manṣūr al-Nāji, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥusayn, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Najīḥ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Muʾammal al-Makhzūmī, al-Awzāʿī, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Sulaymān, Ibn Jurayj, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Sulaym al-Baṣrī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Bukht, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, ʿUthmān ibn al-Aswad, ʿIṣl ibn Sufyān, ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurasānī, ʿUfayr ibn Maʿdān, ʿUqba ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Aṣamm, ʿIkrima ibn ʿAmmār, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥakam, ʿUmāra ibn Thawbān, ʿUmāra ibn Maymūn, ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Ḥusayn, ʿUmar ibn Qays – Sandal, Fiṭr ibn Khalīfa, Qays ibn Saʿd, Kathīr ibn Shinẓīr, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, Mubārak ibn Ḥassān, Ibn Isḥāq, Muḥammad ibn Juḥāda, Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Ṭāʾifī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-ʿArzamī, Muslim al-Baṭīn, Maʿqil ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Jazarī, Mughīra ibn Ziyād al-Mawṣilī, Mūsā ibn Nāfiʿ Abū Shihāb al-Kūfī, Hammām ibn Yaḥyā, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lahīʿa, Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tustarī, Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, Abū al-Malīḥ al-Raqī, and many others besides them.
ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī said: The personal name of Abū Rabāḥ is Aslam, the freedman of Ḥabībah bint Maysara ibn Abī Khuthaym.
Ibn Saʿd said: He was a client of the Banū Fihr—or, according to another report, of the Banū Jumah. The legal verdicts (fatwas) of the people of Mecca eventually came back to him and to Mujāhid, though most of them to ʿAṭāʾ.
I heard some scholars say: ʿAṭāʾ was dark-skinned, blind in one eye, flat-nosed, his hand was palsied, and he limped; later he became totally blind. Even so, he was trustworthy, a jurist, a scholar, and a prolific transmitter of hadith.
Abū Dāwūd said: His father was Nubian and worked as a basket-maker. ʿAṭāʾ was blind in one eye, his hand was paralyzed, he had a flat nose, he limped, and he was black-skinned.
He added: His hand was severed during the uprising of Ibn al-Zubayr.