and among those who reported from him were his son al-Ḥasan, Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāh, Qurrah ibn Khālid, Zakarīyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah, Misʿar, and many others. He inclined toward Shiʿism. He died in 111 AH.
160 – The Accounts of al-Zuhrī, Muḥammad ibn Muslim ibn ʿUbayd Allāh (ʿ)
He is Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shihāb ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Zuhrah ibn Kilāb ibn Murrah ibn Kaʿb ibn Luʾayy ibn Ghālib—the leading scholar, a towering authority, and the ḥadith master of his era, Abū Bakr al-Qurashī al-Zuhrī, originally from Medina but later residing in Syria.
He narrated from Ibn ʿUmar and from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, though only a small number of reports. It is possible that he actually heard from both of them, and that he also saw Abū Hurayrah and others. According to Duḥaym and Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ, he was born in 50 AH, whereas Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ placed his birth in 51 AH.
ʿAnbasah related: “Yūnus ibn Yazīd told us, on the authority of Ibn Shihāb, that he said, ‘I was sent to Marwān after reaching puberty.’” This accords with the earlier dating, but Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr disputed it and said he was born in 56 AH. Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī responded, “Yet people say he visited Marwān.” He replied, “That is incorrect; rather, he travelled to ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān.”
He also remarked, “ʿAnbasah was not someone whose ḥadith should be written.”
Aḥmad al-ʿIjlī said, “Ibn Shihāb heard three ḥadiths from Ibn ʿUmar,” and ʿAbd