60 – ʿUqbah ibn Mukram ibn Aflah al-ʿAmmi * (M, D, T, Q)
A ḥāfiẓ, utterly reliable, Abū ʿAbd al-Malik al-ʿAmmi, from Basra – not from Kufa.
He narrated from Ghundar, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān [ibn Mahdī], Ibn Abī Fudayk, Wahb ibn Jarīr, and a large host of others.
Among those who transmitted from him were Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah, Baqī ibn Makhlad, Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim, Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr al-Bazzār, ʿAlī ibn Zāṭiyā, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, and many more.
Abū Dāwūd said, “Trustworthy, trustworthy; in my view he ranks above Bundār.” ⦗1⦘
Some of the ḥadīth masters said: “He was dependable and skillful.”
Al-Sarraj stated: “He died in 243 AH.”
As for:
61 – ʿUqbah ibn Mukram al-Ḍabbī al-Hilālī al-Kufī **
he narrated from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, al-Musayyab ibn