65 – ʿAffān ibn Muslim ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baṣrī al-Ṣaffār * (ʿ)
A client of ʿAzra ibn Thābit al-Anṣārī; the Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and chief traditionist of Iraq. He was known as Abū ʿUthmān al-Baṣrī, “the Coppersmith” (1), the last surviving luminary.
He was born in 134 AH, either exactly or thereabouts.
He studied under Shuʿbah, Hishām al-Dastawāʾī, Hammām, the two Ḥammāds, Ṣakhr ibn Juwairiyah, Daylam ibn Ghazwān, Wuhayb ibn Khālid, Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah, al-Aswad ibn Shaybān, and others of the senior scholars of his city. He later settled in Baghdad.
Al-Bukhārī narrated from him; his reports appear in the Six Books, though by way of an intermediary.
Those who also transmitted from him include: Aḥmad, Ibn al-Madīnī, Ibn Maʿīn, Isḥāq, al-Fallās, Ibn Abī Shaybah, al-Dhuhlī, al-Qawārīrī, Khalaf ibn Sālim, Ibn Saʿd, Abū Khaythamah, al-Zaʿfarānī, Ibn Numayr, Abū Kurayb, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Shākir, Hilāl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, the two Abū Zurʿahs (2), Abū Ḥātim, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Dawraqī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, al-Ḥasan ibn Salām al-Sawwāq (3), and Ibrāhīm