88 – al-Rabīʿ ibn Muslim, Abū Bakr al-Qurashī (M, D, S)
He was an eminent, reliable authority—Abū Bakr al-Qurashī al-Jumaḥī, a freedman of that clan, from Basra. He transmitted hadith from al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, from Muḥammad ibn Ziyād—the close companion of Abū Hurayrah—and from others.
Those who narrated from him include Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān, Abū Dāwūd, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, Ṭālūt ibn ʿAbbād, and several others.
His grandson—Muslim’s teacher—was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bakr ibn al-Rabīʿ.
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī declared him trustworthy, and no one ever pronounced him weak. Imam Muslim relied on his narrations.
He died in 167 AH.
89 – al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl, Abū al-Mughīrah al-Huddānī (M, 4)
The eminent ḥadith scholar, Abū al-Mughīrah al-Azdī al-Huddānī of Basra. He lived among Banū Huddān and was therefore known by their name. He was born during the caliphate of al-Walīd.
He transmitted hadith from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, Abū Naḍrah, and Thumāmah ibn Ḥazn al-Qushayrī,
…as far as the Indian frontier. The army laid siege to the city and eventually stormed it by force. Among the volunteers was al-Rabiʿ b. Sabih. On the march back an illness affecting the soldiers’ mouths broke out, and close to one thousand men died, al-Rabiʿ among them.
See: al-Tabari; Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, events of the year 160 AH; Ibn Khaldun, al-Ibar 1/233–234; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat 1/247.
(*) Al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir 3/275; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 3/469; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlama al-Amsar, p. 157; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, MS 409; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, MS 1/220; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar 1/249; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 3/251; al-ʿIraqi, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 115; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab 1/263.
(* *) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat 7/283; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir 7/169; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Saghir 2/168; al-ʿUqayli, al-Duʿafa, MS 362; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 7/116–117; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlama al-Amsar, p. 159; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, MS 1115; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, MS 3/150; al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-Iʿtidal 3/377; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar 1/251; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 8/329–330; al-ʿIraqi, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 313; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab 1/264.