Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥārithī, al-Qaʿnabī, originally from Medina—he later settled in Basra and then in Mecca.
He was born a little after 130 AH.
He heard (hadith) from Aflah ibn Ḥumayd, Ibn Abī Dhīb, Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Usāmah ibn Zayd ibn Aslam, Dāwūd ibn Qays al-Farrāʾ, Salamah ibn Wardān, Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tustarī, Mālik ibn Anas, Nāfiʿ ibn ʿUmar al-Jumaḥī, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, al-Dārāwardī, Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd, Isḥāq ibn Abī Bakr al-Madanī, al-Ḥakam ibn al-Ṣalt, Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Sulaymān ibn Bilāl, ʿĪsā ibn Ḥafṣ ibn ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar, Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah, Hishām ibn Saʿd, and many others.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Khuraibī—who was himself one of al-Qaʿnabī’s teachers—Muḥammad ibn Sanjar the ḥāfiẓ, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, ʿAmr ibn Manṣūr al-Nasāʾī, Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ghālib Tamtām⦗1⦘, Ismāʿīl the judge, Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn al-Ḍurays, ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī, Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh Durrān, Isḥāq ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarbī, Muʿādh ibn al-Muthannā, Abū Muslim al-Kajji, Abū Khalīfah al-Jumaḥī, and a large number of others.
Muslim, Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī, and Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasāʾī also transmitted his hadith through an intermediary.
Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī said, “I never wrote from anyone who held a higher place in my eyes than al-Qaʿnabī.”⦗2⦘