208 – Musaddad ibn Musarhad ibn Musarbal al-Asadi* (cited by al-Bukhari, Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, and al-Nasa’i)
He was the eminent imam, the ḥāfiẓ (master memoriser of hadith) and authoritative proof, Abū al-Hasan al-Asadi of Basra, one of the leading lights of hadith scholarship.
He was born around the year 150 AH.
He related traditions from Juwayriyyah ibn Asmāʾ, Mahdi ibn Maymūn, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, ʿAbd Allah ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, Abū ʿAwānah, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, al-Ḥārith ibn ʿUbayd, Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allah, Hushaym, ʿAbd al-Wārith, Sallām ibn Abī Muṭīʿ, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mukhtār, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Mulāzim ibn ʿAmr, Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Suḥaymī, Muʿtamir, Marḥūm, Ibn ʿUyaynah, Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus, Wakīʿ, and from his own father al-Jarrāḥ, along with many others.
He was counted among the firmly established, trustworthy imams.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Bukhari, Abu Dawud, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, his son Yaḥyā, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, Yaʿqūb al-Sadūsī, Muʿādh ibn al-Mathannā, Abū Isḥāq al-Jawzajānī, Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī, and his brother
Another chain transmitted through al-Aʿmash contains the wording: “There was among us a man who proposed to a woman called Umm Qays. She refused to marry him until he emigrated, so he emigrated and then married her; we therefore used to call him the ‘Emigrant of Umm Qays’.” The isnad is sound according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs (al-Bukhari and Muslim).
(*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat, 7/307; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 8/72–73; al-Tarikh al-Saghir, 2/357; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, 8/438; Ibn Makula, al-Ikmal, 7/249; al-Dhahabi, Jamʿ Bayn Rijal al-Sahihayn, 2/522; Ibn Abi Yaʿla, Tabaqat al-Hanabila, 1/341–345; al-Sakhawi, al-Muʿjam al-Mushtamil, p. 289; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, folio 1319; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 4/32/2; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 2/421; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, 1/404; al-Dhahabi, Duwal al-Islam, 1/138; al-Dhahabi, al-Kashif, 3/136; al-Zubaidi, Taj al-ʿArus, 2/376; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 10/107; Ibn al-Qaysarani, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 181; al-Khazraji, Khulasa Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 396; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2/66; al-Kittani, al-Risala al-Mustatrafah, p. 62; Hajji Khalifa, Kashf al-Zunun, p. 1648; Ismaʿil Pasha al-Baghdadi, Hadiyat al-ʿArifin, 2/428.