Fuḍayl ibn Faḍālah al-Qaysī al-Baṣrī. He narrated from Abū Rajāʾ and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakrah, and Shuʿbah narrated from him. He was trustworthy. Ibn Abī Ḥātim (3/2/74) reported from his father: “He was a shaykh.” This identification is closer to the narrator’s generation than the former one, for, as you can see, he narrates from the Successors, whereas that one narrates from the Companions. Moreover, he was from Baṣrah, like his teacher Abū Ḥarb. Allah knows best.

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Ruqāshī corroborated him, reporting from his grandfather ʿAbd al-Malik, from Abū Ḥarb ibn Abī al-Aswad al-Duʾalī, who mentioned it in abbreviated form. Al-Ḥākim also related it through Abū Qilābah ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Ruqāshī: Abū ʿĀṣim narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Ruqāshī narrated to us with it. He said: “This is an authentic hadith from Abū Ḥarb ibn Abī al-Aswad, for Yazīd ibn Suhayb and Fuḍayl ibn Faḍālah both narrated from him in a single chain of transmission.” Al-Dhahabī concurred.

He then cited it through the previously mentioned route. However, al-Ruqāshī was contradicted concerning its chain of transmission, and he is weak due to his poor retention. Thus, Abū Yaʿlā related in his Musnad (1/191–192): Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us; Abū ʿĀṣim informed us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muslim al-Ruqāshī, from his grandfather ʿAbd al-Malik, from Abū Jarw al-Māzinī, who said: “I witnessed ʿAlī and al-Zubayr”—and he mentioned it in abbreviated form. This Abū Yūsuf was al-Dūraqī, who was trustworthy. Therefore, his narration is stronger than that of al-Ruqāshī. Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān corroborated him, saying: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ruqāshī narrated to us; my grandfather narrated to me, from Abū Jarw al-Māzinī, with it. Al-Ḥākim related it. This further supports the narration of Abū Yūsuf al-Dūraqī.