Those who narrated from him include: Ḥaywah ibn Shurayḥ al-Miṣrī, al-Awzāʿī, Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Faraj ibn Faḍālah, and several others.
Faraj ibn Faḍālah said, “Rabiʿah was considered superior to Makḥūl—that is, in devotion.”
Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz stated, “Among us no one showed finer deportment in worship than he—and than Makḥūl.”
It was also said that the house of Rabiʿah al-Qaṣīr stood near Bāb al-Farādīs (1).
Abū Mus-hir related: “ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿĀmir narrated to us, ‘I heard Rabiʿah ibn Yazīd say: For forty years the call to the Ẓuhr prayer has never been given without my being in the mosque, unless I was ill or travelling.’”
Al-Dāraqutnī remarked, “Rabiʿah—known as al-Qaṣīr—is reliable; his reports are acceptable.”
Marwān ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāṭarī said, “Rabiʿah al-Qaṣīr set out on campaign with Kulthūm ibn ʿIyāḍ, and the Berbers killed him in 123 AH.”
Abū Mus-hir al-Ghassānī said, “Rabiʿah—may Allah have mercy on him—was martyred in Ifrīqiyyah.”
102 – ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn Qatādah ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Ẓafarī* (ʿ)
Abū ʿUmar al-Ẓafarī, an Anṣārī from Medina.
It is also said: Abū ʿAmr; he was among the scholars.
He narrates from: his father;
from: Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Maḥmūd ibn Labīd, Rumaythah the Companion—who was his grandmother—and Anas ibn Mālik.