and only a handful of Kufans held this view.

He died in 204 AH. (1)

Khalifah ibn Khayyat and a number of others maintained that his death took place in 205 AH. (2)

Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmmar said: “Muhammad ibn ʿUbayd and his brothers are all reliable; the one with the strongest memory is Yaʿla, the one most skilled in hadith is Muhammad, and ʿUmar is their senior.” (3)

I (the author) add: ʿUmar was a contemporary of Hushaym.

Yaʿqub ibn Shaybah reported: “Muhammad ibn ʿUbayd was a client of the Iyad clan. I heard Ibn al-Madini say, ‘He was intelligent.’” (4)

Al-ʿIjli said: “He is trustworthy, inclined toward ʿUthman, and he had memorised four thousand hadiths.” (5)

164 – al-Walid ibn al-Qasim ibn al-Walid al-Hamdani (T, Q), also called al-Khabdhaʿi, from Kufah.

Khabdhaʿ is a branch of the Hamdan tribe.

Al-Amir vocalised the name with fatḥa on the khāʾ and dhāl, while others read both letters with kasra.

He narrated from Ismaʿil ibn Abi Khalid and Abu Hayyan al-Taymi,