and al-Ẓālim, who was the nephew of Washim (1) ibn Jamil al-Thaqafī.
I had already prepared for him a biographical sketch that contained about eighty narrations with lofty chains, and I have recited that collection publicly. I now wish to set out the entry again in the same format I apply to his peers.
His birth: 149 AH.
The ḥadith scholar Abū Aḥmad Ibn ʿAdī said, “His given name was Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, whereas Qutaybah is an epithet.” Ibn Manda maintained that his name was ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd. It is also reported that he had a brother called Qudayd ibn Saʿīd.
Al-Aṣmaʿī observed, “Qutaybah is derived from al-qatb, meaning the intestines. One says, ‘I stabbed him and the aqtāb of his belly gushed out,’ that is, his entrails protruded.”
Indeed, Qutaybah journeyed in pursuit of knowledge and wrote down an amount that defies description. That was in 172 AH. He transmitted abundantly from: Mālik, al-Layth, Sharīk, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Abū ʿAwānah, Ibn Luhayʿah, Bakr ibn Muḍar, Kathīr ibn Sulaym—the companion of Anas ibn Mālik—ʿAbthar ibn al-Qāsim, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ziyād, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ Salām ibn Sulaym, Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍālah, Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd, Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar, Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān, Ḥarb ibn Abī al-ʿĀliyah, Ḥammād ibn Yaḥyā al-Abaḥ, Khalaf ibn Khalīfah, Dāwud al-ʿAṭṭār, Shihāb ibn Khirāsh, ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar al-Madanī, Rushdīn ibn Saʿd, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Rijāl, Ibn al-Mubārak, ʿAbd al-Wārith, al-ʿAṭṭāf ibn Khālid, Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ, Faraj ibn Faḍālah, and Abū Hāshim.