Artaat bin al-Mundhir bin al-Aswad as-Sakooni ash-Shaami al-Himsi

Name:

أرطاة بن المنذر بن الأسود بن ثابت الألهانى السكونى ، أبو عدى الشامى الحمصى

Artaat bin al-Mundhir bin al-Aswad bin Thaabit al-Alhaani al-Sakooni, Abu Adee ash-Shaami al-Himsi

Tabaqah: 6 - From the contemporaries of Minor Taabi'een

Death: 163 H

Narrated by: Al-Bukhaari in Adab al-Mufrad – Abu Dawood – Nasaa'ee – Ibn Maajah

Teachers: Abu al-Ahwas Hakeem bin Umayr bin al-Aswad, Dawood bin Abi Hind, Sa’eed bin al-Musayyab, Abdullah bin Deenaar, Abu Aamir Abdullah bin Ghaabir al-Alhaani, Ataa bin Abi Ribaah, Layth bin Abi Sulaym, Mujaahid bin Jabar, Abaan bin Abi Ayyaash and others.

Students: Ismaa’eel bin Ayyaash, Asha’th bin Shu’bah, Al-Jarraah bin Mulayh, Baqiyyah bin al-Waleed, Abu al-Yamaan al-Hakam bin Naafi’, Abdullah bin al-Mubaarak, Abu Mutee’ Mu’aawiyah bin Yahya al-Atraabilisi, Mu’aawiyah bin Saalih al-Hadrami and others.

Status: Thiqah Thabat

Opinions of Ahl ul-Jarh wat Ta’deel:

Those who praised him:

1-    Imaam Ahmed bin Hanbal (D. 241) said: “He is Thiqah”

[ Su'aalaat Abi Dawood lil Imaam Ahmed (293)]

2-    Imaam Yahya bin Ma’een (D. 233) said: “He is Thiqah”

[ Taareekh Ibn Ma'een, narrated by ad-Daarimi (1/69)]

3-    Imaam Duhaym ad-Dimashqi (D. 245) said: “Thawr, Jareer and Artaat: all of them are Thiqah”

[ Taareekh Dimashq by Ibn Asaakir (8/12), Chain Hasan]

4-    Imaam Abu Haatim ar-Raazi (D. 275) said: “There is nothing wrong in him”

[ Al-Jarh wat Ta'deel by Ibn Abi Haatim (2/327)]

5-    Imaam Ibn Hibbaan (D. 354) mentioned him in his book of Thiqah narrators.

[ Ath-Thiqaat by Ibn Hibbaan (6/85)]

6-    Imaam Abu Abdullah al-Haakim al-Neesaaboori (D. 405) authenticated his hadeeth saying: “This hadeeth is Saheeh on the conditions of Shaykhayn”

[ Al-Mustadrak Ala as-Saheehayn by al-Haakim (4/494 H. 8383)]

7-    Imaam Shams ud-Deen adh-Dhahabi (D. 748) said: “He is Thiqah Imaam”

[ Al-Kaashif by Dhahabi (1/230)]

8-    Haafidh Ibn Hajar al-Asqalaani (D. 852) said: “He is Thiqah”

[ Taqreeb at-Tahdheeb by Ibn Hajar (298)]

Those who criticized him:

None!