Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥalḥalah, ʿAmr ibn Yaḥyā al-Māzinī, al-Walīd ibn Kathīr, Ibn ʿAjlān, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Jaʿfar, Ibn Abī Dhīb, and others.
Ibn Saʿd said: “He possessed an imposing presence and noble bearing. People used to remark that the caliphate might eventually devolve upon him because of his dignity, intelligence, and all-round excellence. He met Ibn ʿAbbās and others, and he was trustworthy; he has transmitted a number of hadiths.”
He died toward the end of the caliphate of Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik.
93 – Wahb ibn Kaysān, Abū Nuʿaym al-Asadī * (ʿ)
A jurist, Abū Nuʿaym al-Asadī, a Medinan educator and a client of the household of al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām.
He saw Abū Hurayrah. He also narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās, Abū Saʿīd al-Khuḍrī, Jābir, Ibn al-Zubayr, and ʿUmar ibn Abī Salamah.
Narrated from him: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, Ibn Isḥāq, Mālik, and others, and the scholars declared him reliable.
He died in the year 127 AH.
= When he pronounced the takbir, he raised his hands level with his shoulders. During the ruku (bowing) he placed his hands firmly on his knees and straightened his back. When he lifted his head, he stood fully upright until every vertebra returned to its place. In sujud (prostration) he laid his hands flat, neither spreading them out nor clutching them, and pointed the tips of his toes toward the qibla. When he sat after the first two rak‘at, he sat on his left foot and kept the right one upright; but in the final sitting he brought his left foot forward, kept the other upright, and sat on his buttocks.
(*) Khalifah ibn Khayyat, Tabaqat, p. 260; idem, Tarikh, p. 378; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-kabir, 8:163; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa al-ta‘dil, 9:23; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-kamal, no. 1478; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-tahdhib, 4/143/2; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 5:179; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-tahdhib, 11:166; Ibn Hajar, Khulasa tahdhib al-kamal, p. 419; al-Dhahabi, Shadharat al-dhahab, 1:173.