A client-freedman of theirs, he was a Basran and one of the long-lived, firmly reliable authorities.
He narrated from Abū Rajāʾ al-ʿAṭāridī, Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, Ghaylān ibn Jarīr, Abū al-Wāziʿ Jābir ibn ʿAmr al-Rāsibī, Wāṣil al-Aḥdab, Wāṣil the freedman of Abū ʿUyaynah, and a number of others.
He recited the Quran to Shuʿayb ibn al-Ḥabḥab, and Yaʿqūb al-Ḥaḍramī presented his complete reading to him; accordingly, he is counted among Yaʿqūb’s senior teachers in the science of Qurʾānic recitation.
Those who transmitted from him include Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Ibn Mahdī, ʿĀrim, Abū al-Walīd, Musaddad, Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl, Hudbah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Asmāʾ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Jumaḥī, and others.
Among his contemporaries, Hishām ibn Ḥassān also reported from him.
Shuʿbah and Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal declared him trustworthy.
Ibn Saʿd said, “He was Kurdish; he died in the year 172 AH.”
4 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lahīʿah ibn ʿUqbah al-Ḥaḍramī * (D, T, Q)
Ibn Furʿān ibn Rabīʿah ibn Thawbān—the judge, the imam, the erudite scholar,