Third Tier of the Followers
55 – Muʿāwiyah ibn Qurrah ibn Iyās ibn Hilāl al-Muzanī, also called Ibn Riʾāb—a leading imam, scholar, and firmly reliable transmitter; Abū Iyās al-Muzanī of Basra, father of the judge Iyās.
He narrated reports from his own father, and from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal; ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib—if the chain is sound— Ibn ʿUmar, Maʿqil ibn Yasār, Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī, Abū Hurayrah, Ibn ʿAbbās, ʿĀʾid ibn ʿAmr al-Muzanī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, Anas ibn Mālik, and others.
He also took hadith from ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr al-Laythī, Kahmas (a companion of ʿUmar), and a number of additional authorities.
Those who reported from him include his son Iyās, Manṣūr ibn Zādhān, Qatādah, Maṭar al-Warrāq, Thābit al-Bunnānī, Zayd al-ʿAmmī, ʿUrwah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qushayr, Muʿallā ibn Ziyād, Khālid ibn Maysarah, Khālid ibn Abī Karīmah, Bisṭām ibn Muslim, Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, Qurrah ibn Khālid, Shuʿbah, al-Qāsim al-Ḥuddānī, Mālik ibn Mighwal, and Ḥammād ibn Yaḥyā al-Abbaḥ.
(=) “A grandson shall not taste death until he rides at the head of the cavalry, the standard borne before him. He will disappear from their sight for a time on (Mount) Radwa, where honey and water are at his disposal.”
See: Abū al-Hasan al-Ashʿarī, Maqālāt al-Islāmiyyīn, 1/92–93; al-Baghdādī, al-Farq bayn al-Firaq, pp. 28–29; al-Shahrastānī, al-Milal wa-l-Nihal, 2/150; Ḥasan Ibrāhīm Ḥasan, Tārīkh al-Islām, 1/405.
The author, in his Tārīkh, 4/188, reports from al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār that ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said: “I can gauge the righteousness or corruption of the Banū Hāshim by their attitude toward Kathīr: whoever among them loves him is corrupt, and whoever hates him is upright, for he was a khashabī who believed in the rajʿa (the return).”
(*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt, 7/221; Khalīfah, al-Ṭabaqāt, p. 207; Khalīfah, al-Tārīkh, p. 257; al-Bukhārī, al-Tārīkh, 7/330; Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl, 8/278, 379; al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, no. 1346; Ibn Ḥajar, Tadhhīb al-Tahdhīb, 4/52/2; al-Dhahabī, Tārīkh al-Islām, 4/304; Ibn Ḥajar, Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb, 10/216; Ibn Ḥajar, Khulāṣat Tadhhīb al-Kamāl, 382.