Abū Dāwūd and al-Dāraquṭnī likewise judged him reliable. Muslim and a number of other authorities gave him the kunya Abū Zabr, whereas al-Bukhārī held that his kunya was Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.

His son related: “My father was born in the year 75 AH and died in 165 AH.” Others say he died in 164 AH.

Ibn Abī ʿUmar wrote to me—together with a group who had heard from Abū Ḥafṣ the tutor—and Abū al-Qāsim al-Shaybānī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad informed us; Abū Bakr al-Bazzār informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rūḥ narrated to us; Shababa narrated to us; Abū Zabr narrated to us; al-Zuhrī narrated to us, from Abū Salama, from ʿĀʾisha, who said:

“I assumed iḥrām for ʿUmrah together with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ during his pilgrimage.” (1)

Among those of his generation:

131 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Khālid al-Baṣrī *
A Baṣran, truthful; he later settled in Rayy. He related from al-Zuhrī and Ashʿath al-Ḥumrānī. Those who transmitted from him include Zāfir ibn Sulaymān, Hishām ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, and others. Abū Ḥātim said: “Upright.”

132 – Fulayḥ ibn Sulaymān ibn Abī al-Mughīrah ibn Ḥunayn al-Khuzāʿī ** (ʿa)
His grandfather’s name was Rāfiʿ—or, according to another report, Nāfiʿ—ibn Ḥunayn al-Khuzāʿī.