219 – ʿAlī ibn Maʿbad ibn Shaddād al-ʿAbdī al-Raqqī *
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ (hadith master), and jurist; Abū al-Ḥasan—also called Abū Muḥammad—al-ʿAbdī al-Raqqī, later resident in Egypt, and one of the senior authorities of his age.
He transmitted from: Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAmr al-Raqqī, Mūsā ibn Aʿyan, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, Ibn ʿUyaynah, Hushaym, al-Muʿāfā ibn ʿImrān, al-Musayyab ibn Sharīk, ʿAttāb ibn Bashīr, Ibn Wahb, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, al-Shāfiʿī, and many others.
He reported from Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan both al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr and al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr.
Among those who narrated from him are: Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Abū ʿUbayd, Isḥāq al-Kawsaj, Khushaysh ibn Aṣram, Salamah ibn Shabīb, Baḥr ibn Naṣr, Samūyah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, the jurist ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ḥabīb, Abū Ḥātim, Miqdām ibn Dāwūd al-Ruʿaynī, Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, Abū Yazīd al-Qarāṭīsī, Yaḥyā ibn ʿUthmān ibn Ṣāliḥ, and a host of others.
Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā said: I heard him recount, “I returned from al-Maʾmūn after refusing the judgeship in Egypt that he offered me. I spread out a mat and sat at my doorway. Two men passed by, and I heard one say to the other, ‘By Allah, nothing has been validated for him up to now, yet he has opened his door and laid out his mat!’
“So I went inside, sat just behind my door, and said, ‘That is closer for whoever comes to see me.’ Then two men passed by, and I heard one of them…”