does indeed fall under the lawful concessions, it will not harm you; if not, at least you will have erred on the side of caution.’”
Mālik said, “People helped him pay the price of his emancipation and hastened to do so until a sizeable surplus remained. Ziyād returned the extra to them in proportion to their contributions, recorded their names, and continued to pray for them until he died.”
I say: In the canonical compilations he is credited with three hadiths.
I also say: His father’s name was Maysarah.
205 – Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ al-Madani (M, 4, Kh maqrūnan)
An eminent imam and leading hadith transmitter—truthful and reliable—Abū Yazīd al-Madani, the freedman of Juwayriyah bint al-Ahmas al-Ghatafaniyyah.
He reported hadith from: his father Abū Ṣāliḥ Dhakwān al-Sammān; al-Nuʿmān ibn Abī ʿAyyāsh al-Zuraqī; ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yazīd al-Laythī; Abū ʾl-Ḥabbāb Saʿīd ibn Yasār; Abū ʿUbayd al-Ḥājib; al-Ḥārith ibn Mukhlad al-Anṣārī; Ṣafwān ibn Abī Yazīd; Ibn al-Munkadir; Ibn Shihāb; and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār.
He also narrated to his contemporaries, such as al-Aʿmash, Sumay, and Rabīʿah al-Raʾy.
I am not aware of his having taken anything directly from a Companion; he is counted among the younger Successors.
Transmitters who related from him include: al-Aʿmash, Rabīʿah, and Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah—each of them a Successor—as well as Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim; Ibn ʿAjlān; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar; Shuʿbah; al-Thawrī; both Ḥammāds; Zayd ibn Abī Unaysah—who predeceased him by a long span—Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd; Sulaymān ibn Bilāl; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Ḥāzim; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Darāwardī; Wuhaib ibn Khālid; Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah; Ibn ʿUlayyah; Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī; and Anas.