at her doorstep; she would come out to him, and the two would sit together.⦗1⦘
Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim said: “Yaʿlā sent from Syria a large scroll filled with legal questions and instructed, ‘Present it to Qatādah.’ I asked Qatādah, but he replied, ‘That would be difficult for me; ask Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah instead.’ I did so, then showed the scroll to Qatādah, and he altered nothing in it except two matters.
201 – Yaʿlā ibn ʿAtāʾ al-Ṭāʾifī * (Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, Ibn Mājah)
Originally from al-Ṭāʾif, he later settled in Wāsiṭ.
He narrated from: Aws ibn Abī Aws, ʿImārah ibn Ḥadīd, Wakīʿ ibn ʿUdus, and others.
Among those who narrated from him are: Shuʿbah, Abū ʿAwānah, al-Thawrī, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Hushaym, and others.
He was one of the freedmen (mawla) of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ.
Ibn Maʿīn deemed him reliable, while Abū Ḥātim said: “His ḥadith is sound.”
Al-Bukhārī stated that he died in 120 AH.
202 – Maṭar al-Warrāq, Abū Rajāʾ al-Khurasānī * (Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, Ibn Mājah)
An eminent, ascetic and truthful scholar, Abū Rajāʾ ibn Taḥmān al-Khurasānī resided in Basra and was the client of ʿIlbāʾ ibn Aḥmar al-Yashkurī.
He was one of the scholars who acted on their knowledge. He used to copy Qurʾānic codices with great precision.