Al-ʿUqaylī said, “There was some weakness in his retention.” (1)
115 – SHUJĀʿ ibn al-Walīd ibn Qays al-Sakūnī * (ʿ)
The imam, traditionist, devout worshipper, and truthful transmitter—better known as Abū Badr al-Sakūnī, a Kufan who later settled in Baghdad.
He transmitted from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, Layth ibn Abī Sulaym, Mughīra ibn Miqsam, Qābūs ibn Abī Ḍabyān, Sulaymān al-Aʿmash, Hishām ibn ʿUrwa, Mūsā ibn ʿUqba, Khuṣayf, and their contemporaries.
Those who reported from him include his son, Abū Hammām al-Walīd ibn Shujāʿ; Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn; Aḥmad; Isḥāq; ʿAlī; Abū ʿUbayd; Saʿdān ibn Naṣr; Abū Bakr al-Ṣaghānī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rūḥ al-Madāʾinī; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Munādī; Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ṭālib; and many others.
He was a godly imam, one of the scholars who practiced what they knew. His hadiths are preserved in the major compilations of Islam, and a fair number of his upper-chain narrations have reached us. (2)
(1) Al-Duafa by al-Uqayli, folio 116. In the original manuscript, the biography of Abd Allah ibn Numayr follows this entry; because it is identical, word for word, with the version already printed on p. 194, we have omitted it here.
(*) Ibn Main, Tarikh, p. 249; Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 7/333; al-Bukhari, Tarikh al-Kabir, 4/261; al-Bukhari, Tarikh al-Saghir, 2/306; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, 3/378; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlama al-Amsar, no. 1395; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, 574; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 2/71/1; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, 1/346; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 1/328; al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-Iʿtidal, 2/264; al-Dhahabi, al-Kashif, 2/5; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 4/312; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, 138; Ibn ʿAbd al-Hadi, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, 163; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2/12.
(2) The nisba “al-Sakuni” goes back to the clan of al-Sakun, a branch of Kindah, descended from al-Sakun ibn Ashras ibn Thur.