al-Mukhalliṣ narrated to us, and he said: ʿAbd Allah al-Baghawī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ḥārithī narrated to us; Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ghasil narrated to us, from Usayd ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd, from his father, from Abū Usayd—who had fought at Badr—who said:
“I was sitting with the Prophet ﷺ when a man from the Anṣār came and said … (1)
112 – ʿUthmān al-Burrī, Abū Salamah ibn Miqsam al-Kindī (t)
A distinguished scholar, legal authority, and the jurist of Basrah: Abū Salamah ʿUthmān ibn Miqsam al-Kindī, their client, al-Baṣrī, known as al-Burrī.
He transmitted from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, Saʿīd al-Maqburī, Nāfiʿ, Qatādah, Abū Isḥāq, Ḥammād ibn Abī Sulaymān, Farqad al-Sabakhī, Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir, and others.
He was among those who compiled knowledge and committed it to writing.
Those who narrated from him include Sufyān al-Thawrī, Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, Abū ʿĀṣim, Salm ibn Qutaybah, Yaḥyā ibn Sallām, Shaybān ibn Farrūkh, and many others.
(1) The remainder of the report reads: “O Messenger of Allah, is there any act of dutifulness still owed to my parents after their death?” He answered: “Yes: praying for them, asking forgiveness for them, carrying out the pledges they left, maintaining the kinship that exists only through them, and honouring their friends.” It is related by Ahmad, 3/497–498; Abu Dawud, no. 5142 (Book of Manners, chapter: Dutifulness to parents); Ibn Majah, no. 3664 (Book of Manners, chapter: Keep ties with those your father kept); and Ibn Hibban, no. 2030. Only Ibn Hibban rated Usayd b. Ali and his father as reliable, yet al-Hakim declared the hadith authentic (4/155), a judgement with which al-Dhahabi—and the present author—agree.
(*) Principal biographical sources: Ibn Saad, Tabaqat, 7/285; Khalifah, Tarikh, p. 449 (under the form “Uthman b. Muqsim al-Marri”); al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 6/252–253, and al-Tarikh al-Saghir, 2/160; Ibn Asakir, Maʿrifah wa-l-Tarikh, 2/123, 148; 3/34, 62; Ibn Hibban, al-Du‘afa’, no. 292–293; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, 6/167–169; Ibn Hibban, Kitab al-Majruhin, 2/101; Ibn ʿAdiyy, al-Kamil, no. 550–551; al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-Iʿtidal, 3/59.