The Tall and the Stout—two men who lived at the same time.
The Stout transmitted ḥadith from Mujāhid, Kuraib, and Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, though only a few reports are known from him. Those who narrated from him include Salamah ibn Kuhayl, Ashʿath ibn Sawwār, and Ismāʿīl ibn Sumayʿ al-Ḥanafī, and it appears that he died while still young.
Both Muslim and Ibn Mājah record, through the chain of Salamah ibn Kuhayl → this Bukayr → Kuraib → Ibn ʿAbbās, the report: “I spent the night with my maternal aunt Maymūnah (1)…,” and the remainder of the narration. Salamah then said, “I later met Kuraib, and he related the same report to me from Ibn ʿAbbās.”
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Tamīmī and Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAsākir read this to us separately, on the authority of ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzāz (ḥāʾ).
Ismāʿīl ibn Rikāb and Mūsā ibn Ibrāhīm likewise informed us, saying: “Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid the ḥāfiẓ informed us; and so did ʿAbd al-Muʿizz (ḥāʾ).”
Rashīd ibn Kāmil and Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr also reported to us, saying: “Aḥmad…”
(1) Reported by Muslim, 1/528-529, unique no. 187, in the Book of the Traveler’s Prayer and its Shortening, chapter: “Supplication during the Night Prayer and its Standing”; by Ibn Majah, no. 508, in the Book of Purification, chapter: “Ablution of one who has slept.” It also appears in al-Bukhari, 11/98, in the Book of Invocations, chapter: “Supplication upon Waking at Night”; by Malik, 1/121, in the section on Night Prayer; by al-Bukhari again, 2/401-404, in the chapters on the Witr prayer; by al-Nasa’i, 2/218, chapter: “Supplication in Prostration”; by Abu Dawud, no. 1367; and by Ibn Majah, no. 1363, in the Book of Establishing the Prayer and its Sunnah, chapter: “How many units are prayed at night”—all through the isnad of Makhrama ibn Sulayman, from Kurayb, who reported that Ibn Abbas spent the night at the house of his maternal aunt Maymuna.
Muslim’s wording runs as follows: Ibn Abbas said, “I spent the night at my aunt Maymuna’s to observe how the Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed. He arose, relieved himself, washed his face and hands, then slept. He rose again, went to the waterskin, untied its strap, poured water into a basin or bowl, covered it with his hand, and performed a thorough ablution. Between the two ablutions he stood to pray. I came and stood beside him, taking position on his left; he took me by the hand and placed me on his right. The total prayer of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ amounted to thirteen rakʿahs. Then he slept until he snored—we recognized his sleep by the sound of his breathing. He then went out to the prayer and prayed, repeating in his prayer, or in his prostration: ‘Allahumma (O Allah) place light in my heart, light in my hearing, light in my sight, light on my right, light on my left, light in front of me, light behind me, light above me, light beneath me; grant me light,’ or he said, ‘make me light.’”