Zayd ibn Aslam

Zayd ibn Aslam al-Adawi al-Umari al-Madani, Abu Abdallah, the jurist and paragon of Medina; his father Aslam was the freedman of Umar ibn al-Khattab (may God be pleased with him). ¹

He narrated from his father Aslam and from Abdallah ibn Umar, Jabir ibn Abdallah, Salama ibn al-Akwa, Anas ibn Malik (may God be pleased with him), Ata ibn Yasar, Ali ibn al-Husayn, Ibn al-Musayyab and others; Malik ibn Anas, Sufyan al-Thawri, al-Awza'i, Hisham ibn Sa'd, Sufyan ibn Uyayna, Abd al-Aziz al-Darawardi and his own sons Usama, Abdallah and Abd al-Rahman narrated from him. He held a study circle in the Prophet ﷺ's mosque; Abu Hazim al-A'raj said he saw forty jurists in his gathering, none disputing over useless hadith, and Ali ibn al-Husayn would sit with him, telling critics that a man sits with whoever benefits his religion. ¹

He had a tafsir transmitted by his son Abd al-Rahman, and more than two hundred hadith in al-Musnad. Malik related that he was appointed over the mine of Banu Sulaym, where people were being afflicted by the jinn; when they complained to him he ordered them to raise the adhan aloud, and the affliction lifted. He died in 136 AH. ¹