34 – Nāfiʿ, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurashī, later al-ʿAdawī * (ʿ)
The Imām, the muftī, the firmly reliable authority, the scholar of Medina; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurashī, later al-ʿAdawī, al-ʿUmarī, the freedman of Ibn ʿUmar and his principal transmitter.
He reported from: Ibn ʿUmar, ʿĀʾishah, Abū Hurayrah, Rāfiʿ ibn Khudayj, Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, Umm Salamah, Abū Lubābah ibn ʿAbd al-Mundhir, Ṣafiyyah bint Abī ʿUbayd—the wife of his master—and from Sālim, ʿAbd Allāh, ʿUbayd Allāh, and Zayd—the sons of his master—together with many others.
Among those who narrated from him are: al-Zuhrī, Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar and his brother ʿAbd Allāh, Zayd ibn Wāqid, Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, Usāmah ibn Zayd, Ibn Jurayj, ʿUqayl, Bukayr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ashajj, Ibn ʿAwn, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Hād, Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd, Yūnus ibn Yazīd, Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah, his cousin Ayyūb ibn Mūsā, Raqabah ibn Maṣqalah, Ḥanẓalah ibn Abī Sufyān, Ḥafṣ ibn ʿInān al-Yamāmī, Khālid ibn Ziyād al-Tirmidhī—who came later—ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Hind, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymān al-Ṭawīl, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Jaʿfar, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād (1), and Nāfiʿ’s two sons ʿUmar and Abū Bakr; also Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, Ibn Abī Dhʿib, Ibn Abī Laylā, Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān, al-Zubaydī, Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamzah, Abū Maʿshar Najīḥ, Hishām ibn al-Ghāz, Hammām ibn Yaḥyā, Hishām ibn Saʿd, Ḥumayd ibn Ziyād, Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāh, al-Awzāʿī, and al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn ʿUthmān.