Abu ʿUmayr ibn al-Nahhas narrated: Kathir ibn al-Walid told us, saying, “Whenever I caught sight of Ibn Shawdhub, I thought of the angels.”
Dhamrah related from Ibn Shawdhub: I heard Makḥul say, “Abased is the one who has no fool to shield him.”
Dhamrah also reported that Ibn Shawdhub’s livelihood came from the earnings of a few boys who worked for him in the marketplace.
He used to say, “My birth was in the year 86 AH.”
Abu ʿAmir al-ʿAqadi said: I heard al-Thawri remark, “Ibn Shawdhub was with us, and we counted him among the reliable shaykhs.”
Yahya ibn Maʿin said, “He was trustworthy.”
Ibn ʿAsakir noted, “He was from Khurasan. He lived in Basra, then moved to greater Syria and settled in Jerusalem.”
Dhamrah stated, “Ibn Shawdhub died in 156 AH.”
I add: He lived seventy years.
40 – Al-Masʿudi, ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUtbah (4)
The jurist, erudite scholar, and hadith transmitter, ʿAbd al-Rahman (1) ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUtbah—great-grandson of the Companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿud al-Hudhali—known as al-Masʿudi, the Kufan, and the brother of Abu al-ʿUmays.