- Abu Bakr al-Nahshali al-Kufi (M, T, N, Q)
He was one of the scholars of Kufa.
There is disagreement about his personal name, and he is known only by his kunya.
He narrated from: Abu Bakr ibn Abi Musa al-Ashʿari; ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn al-Aswad al-Nakhaʿi; Habib ibn Abi Thabit; Ziyad ibn ʿIlaqah; and a number of others.
Narrators from him include: Ibn Mahdi, Bahz ibn Asad, ʿAwn ibn Salam, Yahya ibn ʿAbd al-Hamid, Jabarah ibn al-Mughallis, and others.
Ahmad and Ibn Maʿin declared him reliable.
He is the one of whom Wakiʿ said, “Abu Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Abi al-Qattaf narrated to us.”
The soundest view is that his given name was ʿAbd Allah.
Ibn Hibban criticized him, saying, “He was a righteous, virtuous shaykh; asceticism so dominated him that he became confused without realizing it and erred without understanding, so his narrations can no longer serve as proof.”
I say: Rather, he is truthful; Muslim and others have relied upon him.
Ahmad ibn Yunus said, “Abu Bakr al-Nahshali was devout. Even during his illness he would leap up for the prayer though unable, and when people remonstrated he would reply, ‘I am hastening to have my page folded.’”
They say al-Nahshali died in 166 AH. ﵀
- ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAyyash ibn ʿAbbas al-Qitbani (M, N)
The imam, scholar, and trustworthy narrator, Abu Hafs al-Qitbani, from Egypt.