in Rabiʿah’s study circle, straining with all his effort to grasp what Rabiʿah was saying.
Muṭarrif ibn ʿAbd Allah related—through the nephew of Yazīd ibn Hurmuz—that a man once asked Ibn Hurmuz about the urine of a donkey. He replied, “It is impure.” The man protested, “But Rabiʿah sees no harm in it.” Ibn Hurmuz answered, “Pay no mind to mentioning Rabiʿah’s slips; more than once we have discussed an issue, disagreed with him, and then a year later found ourselves returning to his position.”
Mālik said, “I donned the turban when not a single hair had yet appeared on my face, and I saw in Rabiʿah’s gathering some thirty-odd men, all turbaned.”
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn remarked, “By Allah, I have never seen anyone more protective of the Sunnah than Rabiʿah.”
Mālik also said, “Rabiʿah was the quickest of people in giving an answer.”
- Abū Ḥāzim — Salamah ibn Dīnār al-Madanī al-Makhzūmī (ʿ)
The imam, exemplar, preacher, and senior authority of the Prophetic City: Abū Ḥāzim al-Madanī al-Makhzūmī, their freedman, known as al-Aʿraj (“the Lame”), al-Afzar, the date-seller, the storyteller, the ascetic.
Some said his clientage was to the Banū Layth.
He was born during the days of ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr and (ʿAbd Allah) ibn ʿUmar.
He transmitted hadith from Sahl ibn Saʿd, Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Qatādah, al-Nuʿmān ibn Abī ʿAyyāsh, Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Umm al-Dardāʾ, ʿUmārah ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Miqsam, and Muslim ibn Qurṭ.