Among those who transmitted from him were: Burd ibn Sinān, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥamlah, Hishām ibn al-Ghāz, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād ibn Anʿam, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUthmān, and many others.

He was a noble, dignified leader—endowed with prestige, virtue, piety, and knowledge. Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and others declared him reliable.

ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān appointed him judge of the Jordan district, and later he served as governor of Jordan on behalf of ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.

Abū Mushir said: Kāmil ibn Salamah al-Kindī narrated to us that Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik once asked, “Who is the foremost man of Palestine?” They replied, “Rajāʾ ibn Ḥaywah.” He said, “Who is the foremost man of Jordan?” They answered, “ʿUbādah ibn Nusayy.” He asked, “Who is the foremost man of Damascus?” They said, “Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Ghassānī.” He said, “Who is the foremost man of Ḥimṣ?” They replied, “ʿAmr ibn Qays al-Sakūnī.” He then asked, “Who is the foremost man of al-Jazīrah?” They said, “ʿAdī ibn ʿAdī al-Kindī.”

Maslamah ibn ʿAbd al-Malik said: “Within Kindah there are three men through whom Allah sends down rain and grants us victory: Rajāʾ ibn Ḥaywah, ʿUbādah ibn Nusayy, and ʿAdī ibn ʿAdī.”

It is reported that a man once presented ʿUbādah with a jug of honey; he accepted it, judged against him, and then said, “The jug is gone, O so-and-so.”

They say he died in 118 AH.

158 – ʿAṭiyyah ibn Qays, Abū Yaḥyā al-Kalbī (M, 4)

The eminent imām, devout worshipper, and one of Damascus’s Qur’an reciters alongside Ibn ʿĀmir: Abū Yaḥyā al-Kalbī, the Damascene, nicknamed al-Madhbūḥ (“the Slain”).

He presented his recitation to Umm al-Dardāʾ, who was well-versed in the Revelation, having learned it from her husband Abū al-Dardāʾ.

He transmitted hadith from ʿAmr ibn ʿĀbasah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, and al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr,