175 – Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī (ʿ)
He is Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Saʿd ibn Zurārah ibn ʿUdus, governor of Medina, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, of the Najjār clan, a Madinan.
One report records his name as “ibn Asʿad ibn Zurārah” in place of “Saʿd,” Asʿad being his maternal grandfather.
His great-great-grandfather Saʿd was a Companion, and it is also said that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Saʿd enjoyed the same distinction.
Muḥammad narrated from his aunt, the jurist ʿAmrah; from his maternal uncle Yaḥyā ibn Asʿad—who, according to some, was himself a Companion; from al-Aʿraj, Ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥasan, and others.
Those who transmitted from him include Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr and Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī—both contemporaries of his—together with Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, and many others.
Ibn Saʿd and others deemed him trustworthy.
He held the governorship of Medina on behalf of ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.
He died in 124 AH.
176 – Abū Ḥamzah al-Qaṣṣāb, ʿImrān ibn Abī ʿAṭāʾ al-Wāsiṭī **
He is ʿImrān ibn Abī ʿAṭāʾ al-Wāsiṭī.
He heard hadith from Ibn ʿAbbās and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah.
Although his narrations are few, he was reliable.
Sufyān, Shuʿbah, Abū ʿAwānah, Hushaym, and others transmitted from him.
His walāʾ (clientage) was to Banū Asad.