Ahmad ibn Hibat Allah informed us, from ʿAbd al-Muʿizz; Tamīm reported to us; Abū Saʿd reported to us; Ibn Ḥamdan reported to us; Abū Yaʿlā reported to us, saying: ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd narrated to us, saying: Ibn Abī Dhiʿb narrated to us, from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah:
“I used to twist the collars for the sacrificial animals of the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—after which he would send them on their way, and he would not avoid anything that a pilgrim in iḥrām must avoid.” (1)
Sound, with a high chain of transmission.
It was said that Ibn Abī Dhiʿb compiled a large book on the Sunan.
51 – Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī, Abū Bakr ibn Sanbar al-Baṣrī
He is the ḥāfiẓ, the authoritative proof, the Imām, the truthful: Abū Bakr Hishām ibn Abī ʿAbd Allah Sanbar al-Baṣrī, a client of the Rabīʿah clan.
Known as “the man of the Dastuwāʾī garments,” he used to trade in cloth imported from Dastuwā; hence the nickname al-Dastuwāʾī. Dastuwā is a small town belonging to the Ahwāz district.
He narrated from: Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, Qatādah, al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bazzah, Ḥammād the jurist, Shuʿayb ibn al-Ḥabḥāb, al-Qāsim ibn ʿAwf, Maṭar al-Warrāq, ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah, ʿĀmir al-Aḥwal, ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Najīḥ, Yūnus al-Iskāf (the cobbler), and Abū—