as for al-Layth ibn ʿĀṣim ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Khawlānī, known as al-Hudādī—pronounced with ḍamma and without doubling the consonant—he is a different shaykh altogether.

He narrated from Abū Qabīl al-Maʿāfirī and Abū al-Khayr al-Jayshānī.

Transmitters from him include Ibn Wahb, Yaḥyā ibn Yazīd al-Murādī, and others of the same generation as the teachers of al-Qitbānī.

The author of Tahdhīb al-Kamāl (1) merged the two biographies, and Ibn Abī Ḥātim (2) slipped in the second lineage and in the kunya, writing “Abū Zurārah al-Qitbānī,” whereas the man is actually a Khawlānī. This requires correction.

39 – The Muhallabid, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād ibn Ḥabīb—

A noble, open-handed man, the Ḥātim of his time, governor of Basra: Muḥammad, son of the Basran traditionist ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād ibn Ḥabīb, descendant of the emir al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrah al-Azdi, the Muhallabid.

He narrated from his father and from Hushaym.

Among those who narrated from him are al-Kudaymī, Abū al-ʿAynāʾ, and Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī.

Yazīd ibn al-Muhallab said: “My father related to us, saying, ‘Mansūr, the brother of al-Rashīd, wrote…’”