Sunan ad-Darimi 138

Translation

✧ I asked al-Sha'bi, "How did you act when you were asked?" He said, "You have come to one who knows. When a man was asked, he would say to his companion, 'Give them a ruling,' and it would continue until it returned to the first."

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1. 1
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   الشَّعْبِيّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   سألت
2. 2
   Dāwūd al-Awdī

   weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 151 AH
   دَاوُدَضعيف
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Bakr b. ʿAyyāsh

   Trustworthy (thiqah) and devout, except that his memory deteriorated when he grew old; his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ).d. 192 AH, or: 193 AH, or: 194 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍثقة عابد ، إلا أنه لما كبر ساء حفظه ، وكتابه صحيح
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb al-Ṣaffār

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 231 AH
   يُوسُفُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ الصَّفَّارُثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   al-Dārimī

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AH
   الدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن

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