he committed adultery and even if he stole,” and he repeated it three times.

A sound hadith (1) with an elevated chain.

97 – ʿAbdah ibn Abī Lubābah, Abū al-Qāsim al-Asadī* (reported by al-Bukhārī, Muslim, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, and Ibn Mājah)
Also called al-Ghāḍirī, a client of the Banū Asad, he was a Kufan merchant and one of the eminent authorities; later he took up residence in Damascus.

He transmitted hadith from Ibn ʿUmar, ʿAlqamah, Suwayd ibn Ghafalah, Zir, and Abū Wāʾil.

Those who narrated from him include ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir, al-Awzāʿī, Shuʿbah, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, and others.

He was the business partner of al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥurr; the two of them travelled to Mecca with merchandise and gave the entire capital—forty thousand—as charity.

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said: “ʿAbdah met Ibn ʿUmar in Syria.”

Al-Awzāʿī remarked: “No one who came to us from Iraq was superior to ʿAbdah and Ibn al-Ḥurr.”

Ibn Thawbān related from ʿAbdah, who said: “I was among seventy of Ibn Masʿūd’s companions, and I recited the Qur’an to them.”

Al-Awzāʿī also narrated that ʿAbdah said: “When you see a man given to obstinate wrangling, always arguing, pleased with his own opinion, his loss is complete.”

Ḥusayn al-Juʿfī said: “Ibn al-Ḥurr and ʿAbdah arrived in Mecca with trade goods at a time of hardship. They gave ten thousand in charity, yet crowds of destitute people still remained, and they could not be rid of them until they had spent forty thousand; then they left Mecca by night.”

It is related from ʿAbdah that he said: “On the night of the twenty-seventh I tasted sea water and found it sweet.”