al-Mughīra and Maʿmar, from Thābit. However, Hammād ibn Salama’s narration is more complete in both its chain of transmission and its text. This is a familiar feature of his narrations from Thābit al-Bunānī, for the two shared a closeness that he did not have with others.

Thābit used to say, “Were it not that they might treat me as they treated Abū Saʿīd”—meaning al-Hasan al-Basrī—“I would relate well-attested hadiths to them.” Thus he would abridge his narrations for some