Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd al-Hāshimī, from al-Shāfiʿī.
Ibn Saʿd and Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr state that Sulaymān died in 219 AH (1).
It is related from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal that he said, “He was fit for the caliphate.” (2)
216 – Muʿallā ibn Asad, Abū al-Haytham al-ʿAmmi * (Kh, M, T, S, Q)
A ḥāfiẓ, an authoritative proof, Abū al-Haytham al-ʿAmmi, originally from Basra, and the brother of Bahz ibn Asad (3).
He transmitted ḥadith from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mukhtār, ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Muthannā al-Anṣārī, Wuhayb ibn Khālid, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, and their contemporaries.
Al-Bukhārī narrated from him directly. Muslim, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, and Ibn Mājah—through an intermediary—as well as Ḥajjāj ibn al-Shāʿir, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Sulamī, Sulaymān ibn Maʿbad, Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar Sinjah, Abū Muḥammad al-Dārimī, ʿUthmān al-Dārimī, Hilāl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Baghawī, and others also reported from him.
He was counted among the firmly established imams.
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said, “I do not know of having detected any error from him except in a single ḥadith.” (4)