Judʿān ibn ʿAmr ibn Kaʿb ibn Saʿd ibn Taym ibn Murrah ibn Kaʿb ibn Luʾayy.
He was an eminent imam, a decisive authority, and a meticulous ḥadith master. His kunyas were Abū Bakr and Abū Muḥammad. By lineage he was Qurashi of the clan of Taym and a native of Mecca. He served as judge, was cross-eyed, and acted as the muʾadhdhin.
He was born during the caliphate of ʿAlī—or a little before it.
He related ḥadith from: ʿĀʾishah the Mother of the Believers, her sister Asmāʾ, Abū Maḥdhūrah, Ibn ʿAbbās, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Sahmī, Ibn ʿUmar, Ibn al-Zubayr, ʿUqbah ibn al-Ḥārith, al-Miswar ibn Makhramah, Umm Salamah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar, and—through a disconnected chain—from ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān.
He likewise narrated from: his grandfather Abū Mulaykah, Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Zuhrī, Dhakwān the freedman of ʿĀʾishah, ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Sāʾib, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mawlah, ʿUbayd ibn Abī Maryam, ʿAlqamah ibn Waqqāṣ, al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, Yaʿlā ibn Mamlik, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥakīm ibn Ṣafwān ibn Umayyah, and others.
He was a scholar, a mufti, and a hadith expert noted for precision. He is classed among the contemporaries of ʿAṭāʾ. Under Ibn al-Zubayr he held the office of judge and also performed the adhān.
Those who transmitted from him include his companion ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ—in a narration found in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim—ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Rufayʿ, Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd, Ibn Jurayj, Abū al-ʿUmays ʿUtbah ibn ʿAbd Allāh, ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Ḥusayn, ʿUthmān ibn al-Aswad, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ayman, Ḥātim ibn Abī Ṣaghīrah, ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn al-Ward, Zanfal al-ʿArfī, Abū Hilāl Muḥammad ibn Sulaym, Nāfiʿ ibn ʿUmar al-Jumaḥī, al-Layth, Ibn Lahīʿah, Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tustarī, Abū ʿĀmir al-Khazzāz, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Muʾammal, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā al-Tawʾam, his nephew ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Mulaykī, and many others.