in a number of places, and Hammam is among those who have “crossed the bridge,” for the compilers of the canonical Ṣaḥīḥ collections relied on him as evidence.
Al-Bukhari relates—through Muhammad ibn Mahbub—that his death occurred in the year 163 AH.
Ibn Ḥibbān says he died in Ramadan of 164 AH.
Shurayḥ ibn al-Nuʿmān said: “I reached Basra in the year 164 or 165—he was uncertain—and I was told, ‘Hammam passed away a week or two ago.’ ”
Muhammad ibn al-Muṭahhir informed us; ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muhammad informed us; Tamim ibn Abi Saʿid informed us; Abu Saʿd informed us; Ibn Ḥamdan informed us; Abu Yaʿla narrated to us; Hudbah narrated to us; Hammam narrated—from Qatadah, from Abu ʿIsa al-Aswari (1), from Abu Saʿid al-Khudri:
that the Prophet ﷺ forbade drinking while standing, or something to that effect.
Muslim (2) also transmitted this report, through Hudbah ibn Khalid.
94 – Abu Mikhnaf, Lut ibn Yahya al-Kufi
An author of monographs and chronicles.
He narrated from Jabir al-Juʿfi, Mujalid ibn Saʿid, Saqʿab (3) ibn Zuhayr, and a number of narrators who are unknown.