- Ibn Thawban – ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Thabit al-ʿAnsi (D, T, Q)
The shaykh, scholar, ascetic, and hadith specialist, Abū ʿAbd Allah ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Thabit ibn Thawban al-ʿAnsi, a Damascene.
He was born around the year 80 AH.
He related hadith from Khalid ibn Maʿdan, Shahr ibn Hawshab, ʿAtaʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, Ziyad ibn Abī Sawdah al-Maqdisī, Nāfiʿ al-ʿUmari, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Walid ibn Muslim, Baqiyyah ibn al-Walid, Bishr ibn al-Mufaddal, al-Firyabī, ʿAsim ibn ʿAlī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿIjlī, ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, and several others.
Duḥaym and Abū Ḥātim judged him reliable.
Ṣāliḥ Jazrah said, “He is a Qadarī, yet truthful.”
Al-Nasāʾī and others remarked, “He is not strong.”
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “There is no harm in him,” though on another occasion he graded him weak.
Al-Nasāʾī also said, “He is not trustworthy.”
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal stated, “His narrations are objectionable.”
Ibn ʿAdī observed, “His hadith may still be written down, despite its weakness.”
Abū Dāwūd commented, “He was sound in his religion, and his prayers were answered.”