Ninth Generation
6 – Ḥafṣ ibn Ghayāth ibn Ṭalq ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Nakhaʿī * (ʿ),
the son of Mālik ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Thaʿlabah ibn ʿĀmir ibn Rabīʿah ibn ʿĀmir ibn Jusham ibn Wahbīl ibn Saʿd ibn Mālik ibn al-Nakhaʿ.
He was the Imām, ḥāfiẓ, erudite scholar and judge, Abū ʿUmar al-Nakhaʿī al-Kūfī—chief judge of Kūfah and its leading hadith authority; he likewise served as a judge in Baghdad.
Birth: the year 117 AH.
He heard hadith from ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, Sulaymān al-Taymī, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, Yazīd ibn Abī ʿUbayd, al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Musayyab, al-Aʿmash, Muḥammad ibn Zayd ibn al-Muhājir, Ibn Jurayj, Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī, Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī, Ḥabīb ibn Abī ʿAmrah, Burayd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Burdah, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, Layth ibn Abī Sulaym, Hishām ibn Ḥassān, al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Khālid, his grandfather Ṭalq, and many others besides them.
(*) Ibn Maʿin, History, p. 121; Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, vol. 6, p. 389; Khalifa Ibn Khayyat, Tabaqat, p. 1307; idem, History, p. 466; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, vol. 2, p. 370; idem, al-Tarikh al-Saghir, vol. 2, p. 278; Ibn Qutaybah, al-Maʿarif, p. 510; Wakiʿ, Akhbar al-Qudat, vol. 3, p. 184; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, vol. 3, p. 185; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlamaʾ al-Amsar, no. 1370; al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 8, p. 188; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 310; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 1, p. 165; idem, al-ʿIbar, vol. 1, p. 314; idem, Mizan al-Iʿtidal, vol. 1, p. 567; idem, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, vol. 1, p. 297; idem, al-Kashif, vol. 1, p. 243; Ibn Rajab, Sharh al-ʿIlal, vol. 2, pp. 593–594; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 2, p. 415; al-Dhahabi, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 124; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 88; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 1, p. 340.