al-Azdī and others. Those who transmitted from him were al-Najjād, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-ʿAṭṭār, and Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī.

He was deemed trustworthy, godly, and content with nothing more than a crust of bread. Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ said, “The tongues of the Ḥanbalis and the ḥadith scholars are unanimous that he was one of the badalāʾ; he displayed astonishing spiritual states.” (1)

Al-Khallāl used to say, “Abū ʿAbd Allāh would put Badr forward and honor him, and whenever one looked at him and at his dwelling one could only testify to his patience and righteousness.” It was also reported that Aḥmad would marvel at him, saying, “Who is like him? He has mastered his tongue.”

It is related that Badr’s wife sold her house for thirty dinars; at his counsel she gave the entire amount in charity, and they patiently lived from day to day on whatever food was at hand.

He died in 282 AH and supported himself through the work of his own hands.

239 – Abū Qabīṣah Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kūfī *

The imam, the virtuous and truthful, Abū Qabīṣah Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmārah ibn al-Qaʿqāʿ, al-Ḍabbī al-Kūfī, later of Baghdad, a master Qur’an reciter.

He heard ḥadith from Saʿdawayh al-Wāsiṭī, ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī, Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Jarmī, and their peers. Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Sammāk, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, al-Khuṭabī, and others.