from ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, from Bukayr, from Yazīd, the freedman of Salama, from Salama ibn al-Akwaʿ, who said:
“When this verse was revealed: ‘And for those who are able to fast but with hardship there is a ransom: feeding a needy person’ (al-Baqarah 2:184), anyone of us who wished could break the fast and pay the ransom, until the verse that came after it was revealed and abrogated it. (1)”
It was recorded by al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and al-Nasāʾī through the route of Qutaybah, and our chain meets theirs at a higher tier of transmission.
36 – Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān, Abū Sulaymān al-Ḍubāʿī * (M, 4)
The shaykh, scholar, ascetic, and hadith transmitter of the Shīʿah, Abū Sulaymān al-Ḍubāʿī, from Basra.
He lived among the clan of Banū Ḍubayʿah and was therefore ascribed to them.
He narrated from: Abū ʿImrān al-Jawni, Thābit al-Bunānī, Yazīd al-Rishk, Mālik ibn Dīnār, al-Jaʿd Abū ʿUthmān, and many others.
Those who narrated from him include: Sayyār ibn Ḥātim the ascetic, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, and Musaddad ibn —