and ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, Ibn ʿAjlān, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, and others.
He was counted among the firmly reliable scholars.
d. 116 AH.
Another view holds that he died in 117 AH, in Medina.
33 – Abū al-Malīḥ ibn Usāmah ibn ʿUmayr al-Hudhalī * (ʿ)
Ibn ʿĀmir ibn Uqayshir al-Hudhalī, originally from Kūfah and later settled in Basra; one of the trustworthy transmitters.
It was said that his given name was ʿĀmir;
others said it was Zayd.
He narrated from: his father;
and from ʿĀʾishah, ʿAwf ibn Mālik al-Ashjaʿī, Buraydah ibn al-Ḥuṣayb, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, Ibn ʿAbbās, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include Qatādah, Ayyūb, Abū Bishr Jaʿfar ibn Iyās, Khālid al-Ḥaddāʾ, Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāh, Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī, and others.
He served as governor over al-Uballah (1).
Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿĀṣim and Ibn Saʿd date his death to 112 AH.
(*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqāt, vol. 7, p. 219; Khalīfa, al-Tabaqāt, p. 207; al-Bukhārī, al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr, vol. 6, p. 449; idem, al-Tārīkh al-Ṣaghīr, vol. 1, p. 237; al-Fasawī, al-Tārīkh, vol. 2, p. 151 and vol. 3, p. 72; Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl, vol. 6, p. 319; al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, no. 1656; al-Dhahabī, Tadhhīb al-Tahdhīb; idem, Tārīkh al-Islām, vol. 5, p. 25; Ibn Ḥajar, Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb, vol. 12, p. 246; Ibn Ḥajar, Khulāṣat Tadhhīb al-Kamāl, p. 460.
(1) al-Ubulla: a city in Iraq (the hamza is pronounced with ḍamma, and the b and l are geminated), situated four farsakhs from Basra. Its river lies to its north, and its opposite bank is on the western side of the Tigris. Khālid ibn Ṣafwān said: “I have never seen a land comparable to al-Ubulla for the shortness of its distances, the richness of its waters, the ease of its paths for mounts, the profitability it offers traders, and the security it grants to one seeking refuge.” al-Aṣmaʿī added: “The three earthly paradises are: the Ghūṭa of Damascus, the River of Balkh, and the River of al-Ubulla.”