66 – Makhlad ibn Yazīd al-Ḥarrānī * (Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasā’ī, Ibn Mājah)
One of the eminent and trustworthy imams.
He related hadith from: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, Ibn Jurayj, Ḥanẓalah ibn Abī Sufyān, and al-Awzāʿī.
Those who transmitted from him include: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Isḥāq, Ibn Numayr, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah and his brother ʿUthmān, Muḥammad ibn Salām al-Bīkandī, and others.
Abū Ḥātim said, “He is reliable (ṣadūq).”
I (the author) say: The Ṣaḥīḥ compilations cite him as an authoritative transmitter.
He died in 193 AH.
67 – ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn al-Ṣalt al-Thaqafī ** (ʿ)
He is the distinguished imam, ḥāfiẓ, and authoritative proof, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn al-Ṣalt ibn ʿAbd Allāh, a descendant of the Companion of the Prophet ﷺ al-Ḥakam ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ al-Thaqafī, from Basra.
Al-Ḥakam was the brother of the governor ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ, may Allah be pleased with him.
(*) Ibn Maʿin, al-Tarikh, p. 554; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir 7/437; Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿarif, p. 591; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 7/347; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 1312; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 4/28/2; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar 1/311; al-Dhahabi, al-Kashif 3/128; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 10/77; al-Khazraji, Khulasa Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 372; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab 1/333. The last reference mistakenly spells the name as “Mujalid.”
(* *) Ibn Maʿin, al-Tarikh, p. 378; Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat 7/289; Khalifa, Tarikh, p. 466; Khalifa, Tabaqat, no. 1905; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir 6/97; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Saghir 2/272; Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿarif, p. 514; al-ʿUqayli, al-Duʿafaʾ, fol. 256; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 9/71; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlamaʾ al-Amsar, no. 1269; al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad 11/18; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 872; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 2/259/2; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar 1/314; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 1/321; al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-Iʿtidal 2/680; al-Dhahabi, al-Kashif 2/221; al-Dhahabi, Duwal al-Islam 1/123; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 6/449; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 133; al-Khazraji, Khulasa Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 248; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab 1/340.