al-Asqaʿ—may Allah be pleased with him—and that he also narrated from him. He likewise related from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, Abū Salām al-Aswad, Abū al-Ashʿath al-Ṣanʿānī, Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Makḥūl, and a number of others.

Among those who recited the Qur’an to him were ʿIrāk ibn Khālid, Ayyūb ibn Tamīm, Mudrik ibn Abī Saʿd, and al-Walīd ibn Muslim. These individuals—together with al-Awzāʿī, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Ṣadaqah ibn Khālid, Ṣadaqah al-Samīn, Suwayd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, and Ibn Shābūr—also transmitted hadith from him.

Abū Ḥātim said, “Sound in hadith.” Ibn Saʿd stated, “Trustworthy; in his time he was a scholar of Qur’anic recitation.” He died in 145 AH. His narrations are few. Ibn Maʿīn said, “There is nothing objectionable about him.”

Ayyūb ibn Tamīm said, “He used to stand behind the imams and correct them, for he was too advanced in age to lead the prayer himself.” Ibn Abī Ḥātim reported, “He lived for ninety years.” Suwayd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said, “I asked Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥārith about the number of verses in the Qur’an, and he counted on his fingers: 7,226.”

90 – Khālid ibn Mihrān, Abū al-Munāzil al-Baṣrī, al-Ḥaddāʾ * (ʿ)

A foremost imam, ḥāfiẓ, and reliable authority, Abū al-Munāzil al-Baṣrī—widely known as al-Ḥaddāʾ—was one of the eminent scholars. He met Anas ibn Mālik. He transmitted hadith from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaqīq, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakrah, ʿIkrimah, Ibn Sīrīn and his sister Ḥafṣah bint Sīrīn, Abū al-ʿĀliyah al-Riyāhī, and many others besides them.