of knowledge.

His grandfather al-Muntashir was the brother of Masrūq, one of the celebrated figures. He reported from his father and from a number of others, yet only a small collection of his ḥadīths has reached us. Shuʿbah, Sufyān al-Thawrī, Abū ʿAwānah, and several others transmitted from him.

Jaʿfar al-Aḥmar said, “He was the finest man we ever saw in Kūfah during his time.”

I say: he was devout, upright, trustworthy, and ascetic. All the major compilers included his narrations, and he died long ago; indeed, he ought to have been classed with the previous generation—may Allah have mercy on him. I have not found any report of his that goes back directly to a Companion.

17 – Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd al-Baṣrī, client of Quraybah (ʿ)

The imam, the authoritative proof, Abū Muḥammad—some say Abū Shahīd—the Basran, client of Quraybah. He sent mursal reports from al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām and Anas ibn Mālik. He also related from al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, Maymūn ibn Mahrān, ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, Ibn Abī Mulaykah, and others.

Those who narrated from him include his son Ibrāhīm, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayyah, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Abū Usāmah, Rūḥ ibn ʿUbādah, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, and many more. He was among the senior scholars and left approximately one hundred ḥadīths.

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal mentioned him, saying, “Reliable, trustworthy.” (1)