and Wakīʿ likewise exerted himself to relate a ḥadīth exactly as he had heard it; yet on occasion, if a single word or point needed clarification, he would add: “That is to say, such-and-such.”
Abū Zurʿah said: “He was known as Khālid al-Ṣadūq (Khālid the Truthful).”
Abū Ḥātim remarked: “Trustworthy, an imām.”
Al-Nasāʾī said: “Reliable, firmly established.”
ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī stated: “He was born in 120 AH and died in 186 AH. I saw Muʿtamir and Bishr ibn al-Mufaḍḍal at his funeral.”
Ibn Saʿd said: “He died in Basra in the year six—that is, 186 AH.”
Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr Salāmah ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥanbalī informed us in his book, through ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Kulayb; from ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad; from Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Makhlad; from Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaffār; from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, who said: Khālid ibn al-Ḥārith al-Baṣrī narrated to us, saying: Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah narrated to us, reporting from Qatādah, from Naṣr ibn ʿĀṣim, from Mālik ibn al-Ḥuwayrith, that he said:
“I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) raise his hands in prayer when he bowed and when he raised his head from bowing, until they were level with the tops of his ears (1).”
It was recorded by Muslim and al-Nasāʾī through Saʿīd, and by Shuʿbah from Qatādah.
- Ibrāhīm ibn al-Aghlab al-Tamīmī*
Governor of the Maghrib: he entered Qayrawān, where the people pledged allegiance to him, and large numbers rallied to his side.