al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5
✧ Ahmad b. Abd al-Wahhab al-Hawti
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ قَالَ: نَا أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِ قَالَ: نَا عُفَيْرُ بْنُ مَعْدَانَ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ " اسْتَخْلَفَ ابْنَ أُمِّ مَكْتُومٍ عَلَى الْمَدِينَةِ مَرَّتَيْنِ - وَكَانَ أَعْمَى - يُصَلِّي بِالنَّاسِ
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb
- Abū al-Mughīrah
- ʿUfayr b. Maʿdān
- Qatādah
- ʿIkrimah
- Ibn ʿAbbās
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ appointed Ibn Umm Maktum as his deputy over Madinah twice—and he was blind—to lead the people in prayer.
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
فيه عفير بن معدان وهو ضعيف
in المعجم الأوسط, p. 5 - ابن عدي
ولعفير بن معدان غير ما ذكرت من الحديث ومنها الحديث وعامة رواياته غير محفوظة
in المعجم الأوسط, p. 5
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- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistakeعِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَةَثقة ثبتعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 168 AHعُفَيْرُ بْنُ مَعْدَانَضعيفنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 212 AH, or 215, 222 AHأَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِثقةنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 279 AH or 281 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِصدوقحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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