Ibn al-Farrāʾ and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī informed us, saying:
Ibn Abī Luqmah informed us; al-Khaḍir ibn ʿIdān informed us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad informed us; Abū Naṣr ibn Hārūn informed us; Khaythamah narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf narrated to us; ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd narrated to us; Shuʿayb informed us, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said:
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘Goodness is tied to the forelocks of horses.’” (1)
66 – Harb ibn Maymūn Abū al-Khaṭṭāb al-Anṣārī * (M, T)
A leading imām and ḥadith scholar, Abū al-Khaṭṭāb al-Anṣārī al-Anasī, their freedman, from Basra; he is Harb the Elder.
He related from his patron al-Naḍr ibn Anas, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, and others.
Among those who transmitted from him are ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith, Ḥabbān ibn Hilāl, al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥafṣ al-Dhakwānī, Yūnus al-Muʾaddib, Badal ibn al-Muḥabbar, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ, and many more.
ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī declared him reliable, while others deemed him somewhat weak; nonetheless, Muslim accepted his reports as evidence.