than Ḥammād ibn Salamah (1), then Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra, then Ḥammād ibn Zayd (2).
Muḥammad ibn Saʿd said, “Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra was trustworthy, firmly established.”
Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī related: “We were in the company of Shuʿbah when Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra came in weeping and said, ‘My donkey has died, I have missed the Friday prayer, and my necessities are gone.’
Shuʿbah asked, ‘How much did you pay for it?’
He replied, ‘Three dinars.’
Shuʿbah said, ‘I have three dinars—by Allah, I own nothing else,’ and he handed them to him (3).”
Muḥammad ibn Maḥbūb stated, “Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīra died in the year 165 AH.”
157 – Warqāʾ ibn ʿUmar ibn Kulayb al-Yashkurī* (ʿ)
The imam, the reliable ḥadith master, the devoted worshipper; Abū Bishr al-Yashkurī—some say al-Shaybānī—the Kūfan who later resided in al-Madāʾin.
It is said that his roots were in Marw; others claimed he was from Khwarazm.
He transmitted hadith from: Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, Abū Ṭuwālah, Abū al-Zubayr, ʿAbdullāh ibn Dīnār, ʿUbaydullāh ibn Abī Yazīd, Zayd ibn Aslam, Simāk ibn Ḥarb, Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir, ʿAbdullāh ibn Abī Najīḥ, ʿĀṣim ibn Abī al-Najūd, ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn ʿĀmir, Sumayy—client of Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—and Abū