and the Imām Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Maymūn al-Raqqī.
Abū al-Ḥusayn the ḥadith master told us: Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī told us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Salafī told us; al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl told us; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jurjānī dictated to us, saying: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qaṭṭān narrated to us; Abū al-Azhar narrated to us; Asbāṭ ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; al-Shaybānī said, “I asked ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Awfā, ‘Did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ever carry out stoning?’ He replied, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘Was that after Sūrah al-Nūr was revealed or before it?’ He answered, ‘I do not know.’” (1)
We have also heard this report through additional chains reaching al-Salafī.
158 – ʿUmar ibn Shabbah ibn ʿAbdah, Abū Zayd al-Baṣrī * (Q)
son of Zayd ibn Rā’iṭah (2), the erudite historian, ḥadith master, and authoritative proof, an author of many works—Abū Zayd, the Numayrī, the Basran grammarian who later resided in Baghdad.
He was born in the year 173 AH.
(1) The hadith was also transmitted through several chains from al-Shaybani, on the authority of Abd Allah ibn Abi Awfa, by al-Bukhari, 12/147 (Kitab al-Muharibin, chapter “Legal rulings concerning the People under Covenant”), by Muslim, no. 1702 (Kitab al-Hudud, chapter “Stoning a Jewish dhimmi for fornication”), and by Ahmad, 4/355.
* Principal biographical sources: al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 6/116; al-Fihrist, p. 125; Tarikh Baghdad 11/208, 210; Muʿjam al-Udaba 16/60, 62; Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ wa-l-Lughat, part 2, section 1, pp. 16–17; Wafayat al-Aʿyan 3/440; Tahdhib al-Kamal, pp. 1013–1014; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 3/86/2; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 2/516–517; al-Ibar 2/25; Tarikh Ibn Kathir 11/35; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 7/460; Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 225; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 283; Shadharāt al-Dhahab 2/146; al-Muntazam 5/41.
(2) Al-Fihrist, p. 125, names him ʿUmar ibn Shabbah ibn Ubayd ibn Rayta; al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 6/116 reads “ibn Ubayda”; Muʿjam al-Udaba 16/60 gives “ibn Ubayda ibn Rayta”; Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ wa-l-Lughat 2/1/16 vocalizes it as ʿUmar ibn Shabbah—shin with a dot, fat-ha, then a doubled ba—ibn Ubayda, with an open ʿayn, ibn Zayd ibn Rabita; Wafayat al-Aʿyan 3/440 records “Rayta.”