—who said: “It is not fitting for a judge to decide between two litigants while he is angry.” Agreed upon. (1)

In another wording of the Ṣaḥīḥ: “Let no arbiter pass judgement….”

It was narrated by Shuʿbah and the senior transmitters from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, and the leading Imams recorded it in their compilations.

196 – Mansūr ibn Zādhān Abū al-Mughīrah al-Thaqafī, their freedman* (ʿ)

The imam, the god-fearing scholar, the shaykh of Wāsiṭ in both knowledge and practice—Abū al-Mughīrah al-Thaqafī, their client, al-Wāsiṭī.

He was born during the lifetime of Ibn ʿUmar.

He narrated from Anas ibn Mālik, Abū al-ʿĀliyah, al-Ḥasan, Ibn Sīrīn, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, al-Ḥakam ibn ʿUtaybah, Ḥabīb ibn Muhājir, Qatādah, Muʿāwiyah ibn Qurrah, ʿAṭāʾ, Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, and several others.

Transmitters who reported from him include Shuʿbah, Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, Abū ʿAwānah, Hushaym, Khalaf ibn Khalīfah, and many more.

Ibn Saʿd said: “He was reliable, a decisive proof, and remarkably swift in his recitation; he would attempt to slow down but could not, and he used to finish a complete recitation of the Qurʾān in the forenoon.”

He later moved and took up residence in al-Mubārak.

Yazīd ibn Hārūn said: “Mansūr ibn Zādhān would recite the entire Qurʾān during the ḍuḥā prayer; he would finish it once between first light and ʿAṣr, complete it twice in a single day, and spend the whole night in prayer.” (2)