He transmitted ḥadith from his grandfather and from al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib. Those who transmitted from him include Ibn ʿAwn, Maʿmar, ʿAzrah ibn Thābit, Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Ḍāll (1), Abū ʿAwānah, and several others. He was counted among the truthful scholars; he served as the judge of Basra and used to say, “I stayed in the company of my grandfather for thirty years.”
79 – Maʿbad ibn Khālid al-Jadalī al-Kūfi * (ʿ)
A devout worshipper, the preacher of Kūfa, and one of the reliable authorities; his kunya was Abū al-Qāsim.
He related ḥadith from Jābir ibn Samurah, al-Mustawrid ibn Shaddād, Hārithah ibn Wahb, Masrūq, ʿAbd Allah ibn Shaddād, and others.
Among those who reported from him are Misʿar, Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāh, Shuʿbah, al-Thawrī, and others.
More than one critic declared him trustworthy.
He died in 118 AH.
80 – Jāmiʿ ibn Shaddād, Abū Ṣakhr al-Muḥāribī ** (ʿ)
An imām and authoritative scholar, Abū Ṣakhr al-Muḥāribī was one of the leading scholars of Kūfa.
(1) Muawiya ibn Abd al-Karim al-Thaqafi, Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Basri, was a trustworthy narrator and one of the sober-minded figures of Basra. A freedman of Abu Bakr, he was nicknamed al-Dall (“the one who got lost”) after losing his way to Mecca.
(*) Khalifa, Tabaqat, p. 160; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir 7/399; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Ta‘dil 8/280; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 1347; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 4/53/2; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam 4/305; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 10/221-222; al-Khazraji, Khulasa Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 382; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharath al-Dhahab, p. 156.
(**) Ibn Saad, Tabaqat 6/318; Khalifa, Tabaqat, p. 160; Khalifa, Tarikh, p. 378; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir 2/240-241; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Saghir 1/285; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Ta‘dil 2/529; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 186; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 1/101/2; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam 4/237; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 2/56; al-Khazraji, Khulasa Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 60.