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Question: What is the word of Sunnite scholars about the reliability of Abdullah Ibn Shaddad and accepting his quotations?
Answer: Abul Walid, Abdullah Ibn Shaddad Ibn Had-the name of Had is Usamah Ibn Amr Ibn Abdullah Ibn Jabir Ibn Bashir Ibn Atwarah Ibn Amir Ibn Malik Ibn Laith-was from Kufah.
He is from the companions of the commander of Believers (a.s.) and his mother Salma Bint Umais is the sister of Asma Bint Umais. Therefore, he is the cousin of Abdullah Ibn Ja'far and Muhammad Ibn Abu Bakr and maternal brother of Ammarah, the daughter of Hamzah Ibn Abdul Muttalib.
Ibn Sa'd has counted him as one of those "Tabi'in" who were scholars and jurisprudents and dwelled in Kufah and said at the end of his biography in the sixth part of Tabaqat page 86 that: Abdullah Ibn Shaddad rose against Hajjaj with a group of readers of the holy Qur'an (the experts of the Qur'an) in the period of Abdurrahman, Muhammad Ibn Ash'ath.
Abdullah was killed in the battle of the day of Dujail. He was a reliable man, jurisprudent , Shia and narrator of many traditions.
This battle erupted in the year 81 A. H.; all of the writers of six Sahih books and other Sunnite leaders have relied on his traditions.
Abu Ishaq Shaibani, Ma'bad Ibn Khalid and Sa'd Ibn Ibrahim have quoted tradition from him and the traditions that they have quoted from him are available in all of the Sahih and Musnad books.
From the point of view of Bukhari and Muslim he has learned tradition from Ali (a.s.), Maimunah and Ayishah.(1)
1- Sayyid Abdul Husain Sharafuddin Al Musawi, Al-Muraji'at, p. 149.
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