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Aḥmad ibn Shabīb ibn Saʿīd al-Ḥabaṭī * (cited in al-Bukhārī and al-Nasāʾī)
The Imām, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Baṣrī, who took up residence as a neighbor in Mecca.
He transmitted reports from his father, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, and Marwān ibn Muʿāwiyah.
Among those who transmitted from him were: al-Bukhārī, Ibn al-Madīnī, al-Fallās, Abū Ḥātim, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Abū Zurʿah, al-Fasawī, and many others.
Abū Ḥātim said: “Reliable, trustworthy.” (1)
Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim said: “He died in the year 229 AH.” (2) -
Abū Tawbah al-Ḥalabī, al-Rabīʿ ibn Nāfiʿ * (cited in al-Bukhārī, Muslim, and Abū Dāwūd)
The Imām, the reliable ḥāfiẓ, the last of the senior shaykhs: Abū Tawbah al-Rabīʿ ibn Nāfiʿ al-Ḥalabī, resident of Ṭarsūs—which today lies in the lands of Armenia (3).
Birth: around 150 AH.
He heard from Muʿāwiyah ibn Sallām, Muḥammad ibn Muhājir, and al-Haytham ibn