and from Bilal, from ʿAbd Allah ibn Dinar, with a similar wording.
206 – Sumayy al-Madani * (ʿ)
A ḥāfiẓ (hadith master) and a decisive ḥujjah.
He reported from his patron Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn al-Harith ibn Hisham, the jurist; from Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib; from Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Samman; and from others.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn ʿAjlān, Mālik, Sufyān al-Thawrī, Warqāʾ ibn ʿUmar, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, and many more.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and others declared him reliable.
He was killed on the day of the battle of Qudayd (1), in 131 AH.
He was among the hadith scholars of Madinah—may Allah have mercy on him.
207 – ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd** ibn Yaḥyā ibn Saʿd al-Anbārī, Abū Yaḥyā
The distinguished, eloquent Abū Yaḥyā the scribe, and a pupil of Sālim, the freedman of Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik.
He resided in al-Raqqah and served as the letter-writer for Marwān al-Ḥimār. He left offspring.