he is to be stoned—meaning the adulterer.
Al-Bukhārī also cited his reports in the Book of Etiquette, and Muslim transmitted them in combined chains, as did the remaining compilers.
100 – Ghaylān ibn Jarīr Abū Yazīd al-Azdī al-Muʿawali* (ʿ)
The Imām, Abū Yazīd al-Azdī al-Muʿawali, a Basran; reliable.
He narrated from: Anas ibn Mālik, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maʿbad al-Zimmānī, Ziyād ibn Rabāḥ, and Abū Burdah ibn Abī Mūsā.
Those who narrated from him include: Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, Shuʿbah, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Mahdī ibn Maymūn, Abū Hilāl Muḥammad ibn Sulaym, and others.
He died in the year 129 AH.
In that same year there also passed away: Firās ibn Yaḥyā al-Hamdānī in Kūfah; Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr in al-Yamāmah; Maṭar al-Warrāq; Sālim Abū al-Naḍr al-Madani; Khālid ibn Abī ʿImrān, the judge of Ifrīqiyyah; ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Judʿān; and Qays ibn Ḥajjāj al-Sulafī.
101 – Rabīʿah ibn Yazīd Abū Shuʿayb al-Iyādī al-Dimashqī** (ʿ)
The Imām, the exemplar, Abū Shuʿayb al-Iyādī, the Damascene—short in stature.
He narrated from: Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ, Jubayr ibn Nufayr, Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī, and others.
He lived to be over eighty years old.
It is said that he also heard directly from Muʿāwiyah.