to listen, then to pay full attention, then to memorize it, then to act upon it, and finally to spread it.
Ibn al-Mubārak said, “Whenever Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr mentioned death, his joints would tremble.”
Abū al-Aḥwaṣ reported: “Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr vowed that he would not sleep except when sleep overpowered him.”
21 – Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Ṭāʾifī al-Makkī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh * (M, 4)
Teachers: ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, Ibn Ṭāwūs, Ibrāhīm ibn Maysarah, and others.
Students: Asad al-Sunnah, al-Qaʿnabī, Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, Qutaybah, and many more.
Ibn Mahdī said, “His notebooks are sound.”
Ibn ʿAdī said, “I have not found any objectionable report from him, though he does have a few singular narrations.”
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal remarked, “How weak his hadith are!”
Muʿarrif ibn Wāṣil said, “I saw al-Thawrī writing hadith from al-Ṭāʾifī.”
I say: he died in 177 AH.
22 – Abū Khālid Muslim ibn Khālid al-Zanjī ** (D, Q)
The leading Imam and jurist of Mecca, Abū Khālid Muslim ibn Khālid al-Makhzūmī, known as al-Zanjī,