78 – Ḥujayn ibn al-Muthannā al-Yamānī * (cited by al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and al-Nasāʾī)

He was the Imām, a reliable authority—Abū ʿUmar al-Yamānī, known as al-Luʾluʾī—who later settled in Baghdad.

He related ḥadith from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Thābit ibn Thawbān, Mālik ibn Anas, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, and several others.

Among those who transmitted from him are Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ, Ḥajjāj ibn al-Shāʿir, al-Ramādī, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr Zāj, and others.

Ibn Saʿd declared him trustworthy. ⦗1⦘

Al-Bukhārī said: “He served as judge over Khurāsān, and he originally came from al-Yamāmah.” ⦗2⦘

Ibn Saʿd added: “He came to Baghdad and took up residence there. He was a dealer in jewels and pearls who frequented the marketplace, and he was reliable.” ⦗3⦘

The author says: He remained alive until roughly the year 210 AH, and was by then in his seventies.

79 – Qālūn, Abū Mūsā ʿĪsā ibn Mīnā **

The Qurʾān reciter of Medina and a direct disciple of Nāfiʿ.

He was the Imām, master reciter, grammarian, Abū