81 – ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd ibn Naṣr al-Kissi (M, T)
He was the Imām, ḥāfiẓ, authoritative proof, and indefatigable traveller, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd ibn Naṣr al-Kissi, also called al-Kashshi—pronounced with a fatḥah on the kāf and a dotted shīn.
Some say his given name was ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd.
He was born after 170 AH.
Among those from whom he transmitted were: ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim al-Wāsiṭī, Muḥammad ibn Bishr al-ʿAbdī, Ibn Abī Fudayk, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Yaḥyā ibn Ādam, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥanafī, Abū Dāwūd al-Ḥafarī (1), ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn, Abū Usāmah, Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, Abū Badr al-Sakūnī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Dashtakī, Salm ibn Qutaybah, Zayd ibn al-Ḥubbāb, ʿAbd Allah ibn Bakr, ʿUmar ibn Yūnus al-Yamāmī, al-Wāqidī, Maḥāḍir ibn al-Muwarriʿ, Muṣʿab ibn al-Miqdām, Abū ʿĀṣim, and many others whose names appear in his Large Tafsīr and in his Musnad, of which the portion titled al-Muntaḫab has reached us.
Those who narrated from him include Muslim, al-Tirmidhī, and al-Bukhārī, the last of whom cites him muʿallaq in the chapter on the proofs of prophethood in his Ṣaḥīḥ (2), stating: “ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd said, ‘ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar related to us…’”