he narrated from ʿĀṣim al-Ahwal, Hilāl ibn Khabbāb, Ḥumayd, and others of their tier among the younger Successors.

Those who transmitted from him include Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, ʿAffān, ʿĀrim, Abū Salamah al-Tabūdhakī, and a number of others.

He died while still in his middle years, so he never became widely known, though he was the peer of Wuhaib and his contemporaries.

Abū Ḥātim said, “Reliable (thiqa).”

Al-Nasāʾī said, “There is nothing objectionable about him.”

I say: he passed away in Basra in 169 AH.

As for:

99 – Thābit ibn Yazīd, Abū al-Surayy al-Awdi *

A Kufan, early in date, whom the critics judged weak.

He narrates from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn al-Awdi.

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Idrīs said, “He is not of that standing.”

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “Yahya ibn Saʿīd narrated to us from him.”

ʿAlī (ibn al-Madīnī) said, “I asked Yahya about him and he replied, ‘Average; I only went to him once, and he dictated to me.’”

I add: Sharik also narrated from him, saying, “From Thābit, Abū al-Surayy al-Zaʿfarānī.”

100 – al-Muqannaʿ ʿAṭāʾ, the Sorcerer, the Non-Arab **

He is ʿAṭāʾ al-Muqannaʿ, the magician, the foreigner who claimed divinity by way of