he also transmitted ḥadith from Safwān ibn Muḥriz, Ḥumrān ibn Abān, Abū Burdah ibn Abī Mūsā, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Aʿmash, Misʿar, Shuʿbah, Sufyān, Sharik, and others.
Abū Ḥātim and other critics declared him trustworthy.
He and al-Aʿmash were contemporaries, yet I have placed him first because he died earlier.
He passed away in 118 AH.
81 – ʿAlqamah ibn Mirthad, Abū al-Ḥārith al-Ḥaḍramī * (ʿ)
An imām, jurist, and authoritative scholar, Abū al-Ḥārith al-Ḥaḍramī of Kūfa.
He related ḥadith from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, Ṭāriq ibn Shihāb, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, Saʿd ibn ʿUbaydah, and their peers.
Although counted among the younger Successors, he died early.
Those who reported from him include Ghaylān ibn Jāmiʿ, Abū Ḥanīfah, al-Awzāʿī, Shuʿbah, Sufyān al-Thawrī, Misʿar ibn Kidām, al-Masʿūdī, and others.
Imām Aḥmad said, “He is solid in ḥadith.”
I add: he died in 120 AH.
82 – ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Judʿān al-Taymī ** (4, m maqrunan)
An imām and eminent scholar, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qurashī al-Taymī of Basra, who was blind.