A voice in the chain
الحسين بن معاذ البصري
الحسين بن معاذ بن خليف
Appears in 5 hadith across the six canonical collections.
An abridged path through the isnād
From the Prophet ﷺ to the written books
مُحَمَّد ﷺ
The Messenger
Immediate teacher layer
Received from
الحسين بن معاذ البصري
Selected narrator
Immediate student layer
Passed onward to
Preserved in the six books
صحيح البخاري
Sahih al-Bukhari
0
صحيح مسلم
Sahih Muslim
0
سنن أبي داود
Sunan Abi Dawud
5
جامع الترمذي
Jami‘ at-Tirmidhi
0
سنن النسائي
Sunan an-Nasa’i
0
سنن ابن ماجه
Sunan Ibn Majah
0
Historical scholarship
Classical assessments
Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani
ثقة
Al-Dhahabi
ثقة
Life & identity
Biographical notes
- Lineage / nisba
- البصري
- Generation
- العاشرة
- Died
- 247 هـ
- Lived in
- البصرة
Teachers in the transmission
Received from
Students in the transmission
Passed onward to
The written record
Hadith in this narrator’s chain
Abu Dawud · 542أُقِيمَتِ الصَّلَاةُ ، فَعَرَضَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رَجُلٌ فَحَبَسَهُ بَعْدَ مَا أُقِيمَتِ الصَّلَاةُHumaid reported: I asked Thabit al-Bunani whether it was permissible for a man to talk after the qamah had been pronounced. He narrated a tradition on the authority of Anas: (once) the Iqamah was pronounced, and a person5 narratorsAbu Dawud · 2853نَعَمْ إِنْ شَاءَ ، أَوْ قَالَ : يَأْكُلُ إِنْ شَاءَNarrated Adi ibn Hatim: Messenger of Allah, one of us shoots at the game, and follows its mark for two or three days, and then finds it dead, and there is his arrow (pierced) in it, may he eat it? He said: Yes, if he wis5 narratorsAbu Dawud · 2920حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الأَعْلَى ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ إِسْحَاق ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ قُسَيْطٍ ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللNarrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet ﷺ said: When an infant has raised its voice (and then dies), it will be treated as an heir.5 narratorsAbu Dawud · 4864رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، قُلْتُ : كَيْفَ رَأَيْتَهُ ؟ قَالَ : كَانَ أَبْيَضَ مَلِيحًا إِذَا مَشَى كَأَنَّمَا يَهْوِي فِي صَبُوبٍSaeed al-Jariri quoted Abu al-Tufail as saying: I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. I asked: How did you see him? He said: He was white, good-looking, and when he walked, it looked as if he was descending to a low ground.4 narratorsAbu Dawud · 5190إِذَا دُعِيَ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَى طَعَامٍ فَجَاءَ مَعَ الرَّسُولِ ، فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ لَهُ إِذْنٌNarrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet ﷺ said: When one of you is invited to take meals and comes along with the messenger, that serves as permission for him to enter. Abu Ali al-Lu'lu said: I heard Abu Dawud say: Qatadah di6 narrators