51 – ʿUmārah ibn al-Qaʿqāʿ ibn Shubrumah al-Ḍabbī al-Kūfī * (ʿ)
He was a prolific transmitter from Abū Zurʿah al-Bajalī and also narrated from Akhnas ibn Khalīfah. Those who reported from him include the two Sufyāns, Sharīk, Jarīr, Ibn Fuḍayl, and others. Ibn Maʿīn considered him reliable. He was older—and superior—to his uncle ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shubrumah.
52 – ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Muslim al-Khurasānī ** (ʿ)
He is ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Muslim, the traditionist and exhorter who settled in Damascus and Jerusalem. He transmitted mursal reports from Abū al-Dardāʾ, Ibn ʿAbbās, al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah, and several others. He also narrated directly from Ibn al-Musayyab, ʿUrwah, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, Ibn Buraydah, Nāfiʿ, ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, and a number of others. Among those who took ḥadith from him are Maʿmar, Shuʿbah, Sufyān, Mālik, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, and many more—even his own teacher ʿAṭāʾ related traditions on his authority. Ibn Maʿīn declared him trustworthy. Al-Dāraquṭnī said: “In himself he is reliable, but he did not meet Ibn—”