Volume Seven
1 – Maʿmar ibn Rāshid, Abū ʿUrwah al-Azdī, their client * (ʿ)
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and Shaykh al-Islam, Abū ʿUrwah ibn Abī ʿAmr al-Azdī, the freedman of the Azd—born in Basra and later settled in Yemen.
Birth: either 95 or 96 AH.
He attended the funeral of al-Hasan al-Baṣrī and embarked upon the search for knowledge while still a youth.
He transmitted ḥadith from: Qatādah, al-Zuhrī, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, Hammām ibn Munabbih, Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, Muḥammad ibn Ziyād al-Qurashī, ʿAmmār ibn Abī ʿAmmār al-Makkī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Ṭāwūs, Maṭar al-Warrāq, ʿAbd Allah—brother of al-Zuhrī, al-Jaʿd Abū ʿUthmān, Simāk ibn al-Faḍl, Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah, ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jazarī, ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, Thābit al-Bunānī, ʿĀṣim ibn Abī al-Najūd, and Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr.
(*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat, 5/546; Khalifa, al-Tabaqat, 288; idem, al-Tarikh, 426; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 7/378–379; idem, al-Tarikh al-Saghir, 2/115 (both place his death in 153 AH/770 CE); Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿarif, 506; al-Yaʿqubi, al-Maʿrifa wa-l-Tarikh, 1/139–140, 2/141, 166, 200, 201, 819, 820, 3/157; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, 8/255–257; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlamaʾ al-Amsar, 192 (gives the date 152 AH/769 CE); Ibn al-Nadim, al-Fihrist, Book III, First Section; Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, 5/549; al-Nawawi, Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ wa-l-Lughat, 2/107; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, MS fols. 1354–1355; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, MS 4/57–58; idem, Tarikh al-Islam, 6/294–297; idem, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 1/190–191; idem, Mizan al-Iʿtidal, 4/154; Ibn Hajar, al-ʿIbar, 1/220–221; idem, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 10/243–246; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, 82; al-Khazraji, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, 384; Ibn ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 1/235.