115 – Ibn Muqbil, Abu Muhammad Bakr ibn Ahmad al-Hashimi *
The ḥafiz and imam, Abu Muhammad Bakr ibn Ahmad ibn Muqbil al-Hashimi, their client from Basra.
He narrated from: ʿAbd Allah ibn Muʿawiyah al-Jumahi, Abu Hafs al-Fallas, Bundar, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hawdhah ibn Khalifah, and their peers.
Those who transmitted from him include Abu al-Qasim al-Tabarani and a number of others.
He died in Ramadan of the year 301 AH.
116 – Ibn al-Haddad Saʿid ibn Muhammad ibn Sabih al-Maghribi **
The imam, shaykh of the Malikis, Abu Uthman Saʿid ibn Muhammad ibn Sabih ibn al-Haddad al-Maghribi, a companion of Sahnun (1). He was one of the independent mujtahid scholars—an ocean in the subsidiary rulings, a foremost authority in the Arabic tongue, and thoroughly versed in the sunnan.
= Chapter: “If the finder of a lost article claims it after a full year, it is returned to him,” and the chapter: “Whoever identifies a lost article but does not hand it over to the ruler.” In the Book of Knowledge: “Chapter on becoming angry while exhorting or teaching when one sees something objectionable.” In the Book of Divorce: “Chapter on the ruling concerning a person who is missing with regard to his family and property.” In the Book of Manners: “Chapter on the kinds of anger and severity that are permissible for the sake of Allah.”
And Muslim also transmitted the report (no. 1722) at the beginning of the Book of Lost Property, all of them through the chain of Rabiʿa al-Raʾy, from Yazid, the freedman of al-Munbaʿith, from Zayd ibn Khalid al-Juhani, who said: “A man came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and asked him about a lost article. He replied: ‘Take note of its container and its tying-cord, then announce it for one year; if its owner appears, give it to him, otherwise it is yours to dispose of.’ The man asked, ‘What about stray sheep?’ He said: ‘They are yours, or for your brother, or for the wolf.’ He asked, ‘And stray camels?’ He said: ‘What concern have you with them? They have their water-skin and their feet; they go to water and graze on trees until their owner finds them.’”
(*) Al-ʿIbar, 2:118-119; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2:234.
(* *) Tabaqat al-Nahwiyyin wa-l-Lughawiyyin, 239-241; Inbaʾ al-Ruwat, 2:53-54; Maʿalim al-Iman, 2:295-315; Al-ʿIbar, 2:122; Al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, 15:179-180, 256; Mirat al-Jinan, 2:240; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2:238.
(1) With a fathah or a dummah on the letter sin: he is Abu Saʿid ʿAbd al-Salam ibn Saʿid ibn Habib …