44 – Hafs ibn Maysarah al-Sanʿānī * (Kh, M, S, Q)

The ḥadith scholar, eminent imam, and reliable transmitter, Abū ʿUmar al-Sanʿānī al-ʿUqaylī, who later resided in ʿAsqalān.

He narrated from: Zayd ibn Aslam, Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, and Muqātil ibn Ḥayyān.

Those who transmitted from him include al-Thawrī—who was older than he—, Ibn Wahb, Ādam, Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr, Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Sarī, al-Haytham ibn Khārijah, and Suwayd ibn Saʿīd.

Ibn Maʿīn and Aḥmad judged him reliable.

Abū Zurʿah said, “There is no harm in him.”

Abū Ḥātim said, “His standing is that of truthfulness.”

It was also said that he was an ascetic, devoted servant of God.

Al-Fasawī stated that he died in 181 AH.

45 – al-Walīd ibn Ṭarīf al-Shaybānī *

It was also reported that he belonged to Banū Taghlib and was one of the Arab chieftains.