—at the end of 167 AH.

All six major compilers narrated from him, with the sole exception of al-Tirmidhi.

Abu Dawud said, “He inclined toward the Qadari doctrine.”

Ahmad ibn Ishaq narrated to us; al-Fath ibn ʿAbd al-Salam narrated to us; Muhammad ibn ʿUmar the judge, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Taraʾifi, and Muhammad ibn ʿAli ibn al-Dayyah narrated to us, saying:

Abu Jaʿfar ibn al-Maslamah informed us; ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Zuhri informed us; Jaʿfar al-Firyabi narrated to us; Shayban ibn Farrukh narrated to us; Sallam ibn Miskin narrated to us, from Habib ibn Abi Fadalah, who said:

“Some of the Emigrants used to say, ‘By Allah, I do not fear the Muslim, nor do I fear the unbeliever. As for the Muslim, his Islam restrains him; as for the unbeliever, Allah has already humbled him. But what am I to do about the hypocrite?’”

156 – Sulayman ibn al-Mughira Abu Saʿid al-Qaysi (ʿA)

The Imam, ḥadith master, and exemplar; Abu Saʿid al-Qaysi of Basra, a client of the clan of Qays ibn Thaʿlabah from the tribe of Bakr ibn Waʾil.

Abu al-Fadl Ahmad ibn Hibat Allah— or Ibn Abi ʿAsrun—narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muhammad narrated to us; Tamim ibn Abi Saʿid narrated to us; Abu Saʿd al-Kanjarudhi narrated to us; Abu ʿAmr ibn Hamdan narrated to us; Abu Yaʿla al-Mawsili narrated to us; Shayban narrated to us; Sulayman ibn al-Mughira narrated to us, from Thabit, from Anas, who said:

“We were with ʿUmar—may Allah be pleased with him—in Medina when we set out to sight the new moon. I was a man of keen eyesight, and I saw it while no one else claimed to have seen it….”