Mansur ibn al-Mu'tamir

Mansur b. al-Mu'tamir, the imam, memoriser, and proof Abu Attab al-Sulami of Kufa, one of the great figures; he narrated from Abu Wa'il, Rubayyi' b. Hirash, Ibrahim, Sa'id b. Jubayr, Makhul, al-Sha'bi, Abu Qazim al-Ashja'i, and their layer, while Shu'ba, Shayban, the two Sufyans, Sharik, Fudayl b. Iyad, and many others narrated from him. ¹

Shu'ba said "I never wrote a hadith from him", Ibn al-Mahdi said "no one in Kufa had a better memory than Mansur", and Za'ida said "Mansur fasted for forty years and stood their nights", weeping through the night then lining his eyes, brightening his lips, and oiling his hair at morning. Yusuf b. Umar, governor of Iraq, took him to make him judge of Kufa; he refused, was shackled, then released — Ahmad al-Ijli said "Mansur was the firmest man of Kufa, uncontested" — and he was forced to judge for two months; al-Thawri said "had you seen Mansur praying you would say he will die this very hour". ¹

He died in 132 AH. ²