Bakr ibn Aḥmad al-Shaʿrānī, who transmitted it from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā, the author of The History of Ḥims; Muʿāwiyah still has descendants in al-Andalus to this very day.
Abū Ṣāliḥ, al-Layth’s scribe, and others likewise recorded his date of death as being in “the year eight” (i.e., 158 AH).
Al-Ramādī states in his History: “ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us: ‘Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ arrived among us in the year fifty-seven, and we heard ḥadith from him. He then performed the pilgrimage, and when he returned from Hajj in the year fifty-eight we heard from him again.’”
55 – Miʿsar ibn Kidām ibn Zuhayr ibn ʿUbaydah al-Hilālī * (ʿ)
Ibn al-Ḥārith; the Imām, firmly reliable, the shaykh of Iraq; Abū Salamah al-Hilālī, the Kufan, the cross-eyed ḥāfiẓ, a contemporary of Shuʿbah.
He narrated from: ʿAdī ibn Thābit, ʿAmr ibn Murrah, al-Ḥakam ibn ʿUtaybah, Thābit ibn ʿUbayd, Qatādah ibn Diʿāmah, Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, Ziyād ibn ʿIlāqah, Saʿīd ibn Abī Burdah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jabr, Qays ibn Muslim, Abū Bakr ibn ʿUmārah ibn Ruwaybah, Wabrah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Maslī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muntashir, Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, Zayd al-ʿAmmī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Qibṭiyyah, Muḥārib ibn Dithār, ʿAlī ibn al-Aqmar, Maʿbad ibn Khālid, and Yazīd al-Faqīr.