Al-Nasāʾī said: “It is narrated by Yūsuf ibn Muslim, from Ḥajjāj, from Ibn Jurayj, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Mulaykah, from Muḥammad ibn Qays.”

Al-Nasāʾī then added: “As far as transmissions from Ibn Jurayj are concerned, Ḥajjāj is, in our estimation, more accurate than Ibn Wahb.”

I say: The two do not in fact disagree; rather, Ibn Muslim merely inserted what he thought would clarify the chain by adding, after the name ʿAbd Allāh, the further specification “ibn Abī Mulaykah.”

That is all we possess that even mentions the Sahmī, and we have no certain evidence that he transmitted any report other than this one.

As for the ḥadith on advance purchase (salam), it is contested between him and al-Dārī; one should therefore look for a factor that tips the balance in favor of either narrator — and Allah knows best.

With respect to al-Kalābādhī, he writes in “The Men of al-Bukhārī”:

“ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kathīr ibn al-Muṭṭalib al-Qurashī, al-ʿAbdarī, the Meccan preacher, narrated from Abū al-Minhāl ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muṭʿim.”

Ibn Abī Najīḥ, he continues, transmitted from him the report on the beginning of forward sales. As you can see, al-Kalābādhī has identified Ibn Kathīr ibn al-Muṭṭalib as an ʿAbdarī, whereas he is in fact a Sahmī; and he calls him a preacher, whereas the preacher was al-Dārī, the Qurʾān-reciter.

Al-Bukhārī likewise said of Ibn al-Muṭṭalib that he belonged to Banū ʿAbd al-Dār ibn Quṣayy. Beyond that, he mentioned nothing else in his History (1), and Ibn Abī Ḥātim likewise recorded nothing further (2), save for Ibn Kathīr al-Ṭawīl of Damascus.

156 – ʿAmr ibn Qays ibn Thawr ibn Māzin al-Sakūnī (4)

The eminent Imām, Abū Thawr al-Sakūnī al-Kindī, the senior scholar of the people of Ḥimṣ.

His grandfather, Māzin ibn Khaythamah, enjoyed Companionship with the Prophet.

ʿAmr was born in the year 40 AH and travelled with his father on a delegation to Muʿāwiyah.

He narrated from: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ, Abū Umāmah, al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Busr, ʿĀṣim ibn Ḥumayd, and others.