33 – ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ḥabīb * (d)

Muḥammad ibn Waḍḍāḥ, the eminent muḥaddith of al-Andalus, narrated from Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ḥabīb al-Bazzāz al-Maṣṣīṣī.
He was a senior transmitter who reported from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak and Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī.
Those who related from him include Abū Dāwūd in the Sunan and Jaʿfar al-Firyābī in his compilations—so take note. (1)

34 – Mūsā ibn Muʿāwiyah Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṣumādḥī **

The imam and muftī, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṣumādḥī (2), a Maghribī from Ifrīqiyah.
It is said that he was Hāshimī, descended from Jaʿfar.
Abū al-ʿArab and others stated: “He was reliable, trustworthy, learned in ḥadīth and fiqh, and devout.”

Shaʿīb ibn Abī al-Azhar relates: “I said to Sahnūn, ‘Mūsā ibn Muʿāwiyah has taken his seat in the congregational mosque issuing fatwas to the people.’”
He replied, “No one is more entitled than he to give legal opinions.”

Abū Bakr ibn al-Labbād said: “During his travels Mūsā met a number of scholars, among them al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, and Wakīʿ.” (3)