any good, He will grant it to him, and that is the case every night.”
It was recorded by Muslim (1) on the authority of ʿUthmān.
59 – al-Ziyādī, Muḥammad ibn Ziyād ibn ʿUbayd Allah * (Kh, Q)
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, reliable and distinguished scholar, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn Ziyād ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn al-Rabīʿ ibn Ziyād ibn Abīhi al-Ziyādī al-Baṣrī, one of the descendants of the governor of Iraq Ziyād—the man whom Muʿāwiyah acknowledged as his own.
He was born around 160 AH.
He narrated from: Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, ʿAbd al-Wārith al-Tannūrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Yaḥyā al-Madanī, Muslim ibn Khālid al-Zanjī, Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān, Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ, Fuḍayl ibn Sulaymān, and others of their generation.
He was nicknamed “al-Yuʾyuʾ.”
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Bukhārī, Ibn Mājah, Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn Ṣāʿid, ʿAbd Allah ibn Isḥāq al-Madāʾinī, Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥiṣn al-Ālūsī, Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Ruwayānī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Harawī, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUrwah al-Harawī, and many others.
He and Abū al-Ashʿath were the last remaining transmitters in Basra whose chains of transmission were elevated.
Ibn Ḥibbān listed him in al-Thiqāt, remarking, “He would sometimes make mistakes.”