reliable, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Asbaḥī, the Madinan, the brother of Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Abī Uways.
He learned the Qur’an and perfected its recitation under Nāfiʿ, becoming the last of Nāfiʿ’s pupils to die. Among those who recited to him were Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Miṣrī and others.
He related hadith from his father ʿAbd Allah; his brother Abū Bakr; his maternal uncle Mālik ibn Anas; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Mājishūn; Salamah ibn Wardān—companion of Anas; Sulaymān ibn Bilāl; Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Ḥabībah; Kathīr ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Zinād; and many others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Bukhārī and Muslim; then Muslim alone, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Qazwīnī through an intermediary, Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Sulamī, Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī, Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Ṣāʾigh, ʿAlī ibn Jabalah al-Aṣbahānī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Sarrī, ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Darimī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī, al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad al-Shaʿrānī, and many others besides them.
He was the leading scholar and hadith authority of Medina in his time, though his memorization and accuracy were somewhat deficient. Had it not been that the Two Shaykhs accepted his narrations, his reports would have been lowered from the rank of ṣaḥīḥ (sound) to that of ḥasan (fair).
This is my judgment concerning him.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “There is no objection to him.” (1)
Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr transmitted from Ibn Maʿīn that he said, “Ṣadūq, weak of intellect, not…"