Sunan ad-Darimi 651

Translation

✧ I used to think that I had acquired a good share of knowledge; then I sat with Ubayd Allah, and it was as if I had been in one of the mountain ravines.

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Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), firmly reliable (thabt)d. al-Bukhārī said: died before ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, 94 AH or 95 AH, and Ibn Numayr said, and others: died 98 AH, Ibn al-Madīnī said: 99 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said: that ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn died 92 AH
   عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍثقة فقيه ثبت
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   الزُّهْرِيُّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   قال
3. 3
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
   سُفْيَانَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   سمعت
4. 4
   Bishr b. al-Ḥakam

   trustworthy (thiqah), ascetic, juristd. Zakariyyā b. Dalawayh said: the year two hundred and thirty-seven. Al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad al-Qabbānī said, and Abū Ḥātim b. Ḥibbān: the year two hundred and thirty-eight
   بِشْرُ بْنُ الْحَكَمِثقة ، زاهد ، فقيه
   أخبرنا
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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