Rabi'a al-Ra'y

Rabi'a ibn Farrukh al-Taymi by clientage, the Medinan Abu 'Uthman, known as Rabi'a al-Ra'y, was an imam, hafiz, jurist and mujtahid; his discernment in ra'y earned him his name. He was generous, spending forty thousand dinars on his fellows, and when al-Saffah came to Medina and offered him money he declined it. He died in 136 AH (753 CE). ¹

Ibn al-Majishun said: I never saw anyone with a firmer grasp of the Sunna than Rabi'a. He was the fatwa-man of Medina, and it was through him that Imam Malik took his fiqh. He died at al-Hashimiyya in the Anbar lands. ¹