and ʿUbaydah ibn Ḥumayd, and others. Ibn ʿUyaynah considered him reliable. Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd said, “Whenever I looked at him, I was reminded of Allah.” Al-Qaṭṭān related, “Sufyān always spoke of him in the finest terms.” Ibn ʿUyaynah also reported that a neighbor of Mūsā ibn Abī ʿĀʾishah said, “I never raised my head without seeing him in prayer.”
64 – Burd ibn Sinān, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Dimashqī * (4)
A jurist who settled in Basra and was counted among the leading scholars.
He transmitted hadith from Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, ʿUbādah ibn Nusay, ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, and Makḥūl.
Those who narrated from him include the two Sufyāns, the two Ḥammāds, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Ibn ʿUlayyah, ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim, and others.
Al-Nasāʾī and others declared him trustworthy.
Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ said, “No Syrian who came to us was better than Burd.”
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “Burd fled from Marwān al-Ḥimār to Basra.”
It is reported that he died in 135 AH.
65 – Ḥajjāj ibn Ḥajjāj al-Bāhilī al-Baṣrī ** (Kh, M, D, S, Q)
Nicknamed al-Aḥwal, a ḥāfiẓ.