Al-Nasa’i said, “There is no harm in him.”
Ibn Saʿd added, “He was trustworthy, a jurist, an avid transmitter of knowledge, and related a great many hadiths.”
I (the author) say: He lived in the city of al-Ruhā, and I possess a small fascicle of his narrations.
It was said that he did not reach the age of forty.
Al-Wāqidī stated that he died in 125 AH; others maintained that he actually passed away in 124 AH. According to al-Bukhārī’s History, he lived thirty-six years.
23 — Rabiʿah al-Raʾy ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Farrūkh al-Taymī (ʿ)
The imam, mufti of Madinah, and foremost scholar of his age, Abū ʿUthmān—some say Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—the Qurashi, the Taymi, their client, universally known as Rabiʿah al-Raʾy, one of the freedmen of the family of al-Munkaḍir.
He narrated from Anas ibn Mālik; al-Sāʾib ibn Yazīd; Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib; al-Ḥārith ibn Bilāl ibn al-Ḥārith; Yazīd, the freedman of al-Munbaʿith; Ḥanẓalah ibn Qays al-Zurraqī; ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār; al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad; Sulaymān ibn Yasār; Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Saʿīd ibn Suwayd al-Anṣārī; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabbān; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Aʿraj; and several others.
He was counted among the imams qualified for independent legal reasoning.
Those who reported from him include Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, Sulaymān al-Taymī, and Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ—who were his contemporaries—as well as Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah, al-Awzāʿī, Shuʿbah, and ʿUqayl ibn