the life of this world shuns it; and a believer does not amuse himself to the point of heedlessness—yet whenever he recollects, sorrow overtakes him.
24 – Muʿāfā ibn ʿImrān al-Ḥimṣī, Abū ʿImrān al-Ḥimyarī *
As for Muʿāfā ibn ʿImrān al-Ḥimṣī, he was the ḥadith scholar Abū ʿImrān al-Ḥimyarī, al-Ẓihri.
He narrated from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājashūn, Mālik ibn Anas, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lahīʿah, Shuʿayb ibn Zurayq, and Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh.
Among those who reported from him were Kathīr ibn ʿUbayd, Abū al-Taqī Hishām al-Yazanī, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi, Muḥammad ibn Muṣaffā, Saʿīd ibn ʿAmr al-Sakūnī, Mizdād ibn Jamīl, Abū Ḥumayd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAwhī, and others.
Ibn Ḥibbān listed him in “al-Thiqāt,” and he is reliable—Allah willing—even though he has no narrations in the Six Books.
He died sometime after 200 AH.
25 – Abū Ḍamrah Anas ibn ʿIyāḍ al-Laythī al-Madanī ** (ʿ)
The imam, ḥadith authority, trustworthy, long-lived, and one of the last of the senior shaykhs—Abū Ḍamrah Anas ibn ʿIyāḍ al-Laythī, of Medina.