—al-Marwadhī, on the authority of Aḥmad.

Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb said: “Aḥmad—may Allah have mercy on him—thought that Zayd had heard from Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ in al-Andalus, for the latter was its judge. This, however, is a mistake. I am of the opinion that he heard from him in Mecca, for Ibn Mahdī and others heard from him there.” ⦗1⦘

Al-Khaṭīb also said in his book al-Sābiq ⦗2⦘:

“Those who transmitted from Zayd ibn Ḥubāb include ʿAbd Allah ibn Wahb and Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ṭālib, and the span between their deaths is seventy-eight years.”

It is related from ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb al-Ṭāʾī, who said: “We came to Zayd ibn Ḥubāb, but he did not possess a garment in which to come out to us, so he put the door between us and himself as a screen and narrated to us from behind it—may Allah have mercy on him.”

Muṭayyin and others said: “He died in the year 203 AH.”

127 – al-ʿAwfī, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAṭiyyah *

Judge of the Sharqiyyah district in Baghdad, then judge of ʿAskar al-Mahdī; the erudite scholar, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan, son of the hadith scholar ʿAṭiyyah al-ʿAwfī, originally from Kūfah, the jurist.