30 – Hudbah ibn Khalid ibn Aswad ibn Hudbah al-Qaysi * (cited by al-Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, and al-Nasa’i)
A ḥāfiẓ, reliable, and the foremost musnid of his time: Abū Khalid al-Qaysi, al-Thawbani, of Basra.
He was also called “Haddāb.”
He was the brother of the ḥāfiẓ Umayyah ibn Khalid.
Birth: a little after 140 AH.
He officiated at the funeral prayer for Shuʿbah.
He narrated from Jarir ibn Hazim, Hammad ibn Salamah, Aban ibn Yazid, Sulayman ibn al-Mughīrah, Hammam ibn Yahya, Mubarak ibn Fadalah, Abū Janab al-Qassab ʿAwn ibn Dhakwān, Abū Hilal Muhammad ibn Sulaym, Aghlab ibn Tamim, Daylam ibn Ghawzwan, Salam ibn Miskin, Shibak ibn ʿĀʾidh, Hammad ibn al-Jaʿd, Rajaʾ Abū Yahya al-Harashi, Sadaqah ibn Musa, Harun ibn Musa the grammarian, and many others.
He never travelled in search of knowledge, yet he was counted among the scholars who lived by what they taught.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Abu Zurʿah, Abu Hatim, Harb al-Karmani, Muhammad ibn Ayyub al-Bajali, Ibn Abi ʿAsim, Baqi ibn Makhlad, Zakariya al-Khayyat, ʿAbd Allah ibn Ahmad, ʿImran ibn Musa ibn Mujashiʿ, Tamim ibn Muhammad al-Tusi, al-Hasan ibn Sufyan, Jaʿfar al-Firyabi, Abu Maʿshar al-Hasan ibn Sulayman al-Darimi, al-Hasan ibn al-Tayyib al-Balkhi, al-Hasan ibn ʿAli al-Maʿmari ⦗1⦘, Abu Yaʿla al-Mawsili, ʿAbdan al-Ahwazi, ʿAli ibn Ahmad ibn Bisṭam al-Zaʿfarani, Muṭayyin, Musa ibn Zakariya al-Tustari, Yahya ibn Muhammad al-Hinnāʾi, Muhammad ibn Bishr ibn Maṭar, ʿImran ibn ʿAbd al-Rahim, and Muhammad ibn Yaʿqub.