and Abu Usamah also heard from this al-Sulamī, assuming that he was Ibn Jābir, and thus fell into error.

I have already presented al-Sulamī’s biography in al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr and in Mizān al-Iʿtidāl.

He likewise narrated from al-Zuhrī, Bilāl ibn Saʿd, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, Muṭʿim ibn al-Miqdām, and a number of others.

Among those who transmitted from him were his two sons, Khālid and Ḥasan, as well as al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Abū Usāmah, Abū al-Mughīrah al-Khawlānī, and others.

Ibn Abī Dāwūd said: He, Thawr, Burd ibn Sinān, Muḥammad ibn Rāshid, and Ibn Thawbān all came to Iraq, fleeing execution; they were adherents of the Qadarī creed.

I (the author) add: Ibn Tamīm died in the mid-150s AH.

59 – ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Zayd, Abū ʿUbaydah al-Baṣrī *
The ascetic, the exemplar, the mentor of worshippers, Abū ʿUbaydah al-Baṣrī.

He related hadith from al-Ḥasan, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rāshid, ʿUbādah ibn Nusay, and several others.

Those who narrated from him include Muḥammad ibn al-Sammāk, Wakīʿ, Zayd ibn Ḥubbāb, Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, and others.

In the scholars’ judgment, his hadith are of the very weak category.

Al-Bukhārī said: “They abandoned him.”

Al-Nasāʾī said: “His hadith are to be discarded.”

And Ibn