from Makḥūl, who reported that Abū Hurayrah said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Jihād is obligatory upon you alongside every righteous or wicked (leader), even if he commits major sins; and the funeral prayer is obligatory upon you for every Muslim who dies, whether righteous or wicked, even if he has committed major sins.” (1)
116 – Ḥammād ibn Mālik ibn Bisṭām ibn Dirham al-Ashjaʿī
The traditionist of great longevity, Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī, a Damascene from Ḥarastā.
He narrated from al-Awzaʿī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir, Saʿīd ibn Bashīr, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, and others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Walīd ibn Muslim—who was actually one of his teachers—Marwān al-Ṭaṭarī, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī, Abū Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī, Abū Zurʿah al-Dimashqī, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, Ismāʿīl Sammuwayh, ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī, Abū ʿAbd al-Malik Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Busrī, and several others.
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: I heard my father say, “Ḥammād ibn Mālik circulated about forty hadiths on the authority of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir, and when Abū Mushir was informed of that,”