Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

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• Nuʿaym ibn Abī Hind: Al-Thawrī did not narrate from him. When he was
asked as to why he did not narrate from him he said:
كان يتناول عليا
He would denigrate ʿAlī I. 2
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• Asad ibn Wadāʿah: He was a reviling Nāṣibī. 4 Abū al-ʿArab has said the
following regarding him:
من سب الصحابة فليس بثقة ول مأمون
He who reviles the Ṣaḥābah M is not reliable and trustworthy. 5
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• Ḥusayn ibn Numayr: he was accused of Naṣb. 7
1 Nuʿaym ibn Abī Hind (his actual name is Nuʿmān) ibn Ashyam al-Ashjaʿī. A reliable narrator of
Kūfah. His father was a Ṣaḥābī. He has narrated from Abū Wāʾil and others and from Shuʿbah has
narrated and others. He passed away in 110 A.H. His narrations appear in the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim and the
Sunans of al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī and Ibn Mājah. See: Maʿrifah al-Thiqāt 2/318; Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 29/497;
Mīzān al-Iʿtidāl 7/45; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb 10/417.
2 Mīzān al-Iʿtidāl 7/46; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb 10/417.
3 Asad ibn Wadāʿah al-Ṭāʾī al-Nabahānī, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Shāmī. One of the saints of Shām and its
scholars. He met some Ṣaḥābah M like Abū Umāmah and the people of Shām have taken narrations
from him. He was the judge of the army in Ḥimṣ. Al-Nasāʾī has approved of him and Ibn Ḥibbān has
mentioned him in his al-Thiqāt. He was killed in 136 A.H. See: al-Maʿrifah wa al-Tārīkh 1/5; Ḍuʿafāʾ al-
ʿUqaylī 1/26; Mīzān al-Iʿtidāl 1/364; Lisān al-Mīzān 1/385.
4 Al-Mughnī fī al-Ḍuʿafāʾ 1/76.
5 Lisān al-Mīzān 1/385.
6 Ḥuṣayn ibn Numayr al-Hamadānī, their client, Abū Miḥṣan al-Wāsiṭī al-Ḍarīr. Originally of Kūfah.
Shuʿbah, Sufyān, Ibn Abī Laylā and others have narrated from him. Most scholars have deemed him
reliable. I did not come across his date of demise. His narrations appear in the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī and
the Sunans of al-Nasāʾī, Abū Dāwūd and al-Tirmidhī. See: al-Jarḥ wa al-Taʿdīl 3/197; Tahdhīb al-Kamāl
6/546; Mīzān al-Iʿtidāl 2/314; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb 2/337.
7 Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb p. 171.
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