Hisham

Abd al-Aziz, as referenced in hadith chains, most often refers to Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Salama al-Majishun, a Medinan hadith scholar of the Tabi' al-Tabi'in generation, or to Abd al-Aziz ibn Suhayb al-Basri, a Tabi'i scholar from Basra who narrated extensively from Anas ibn Malik (may Allah be pleased with him). The latter is one of the key transmitters of Anas's hadith and appears frequently in the chains of Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim in narrations from Anas. He was considered reliable by the major hadith critics and his precise transmission of Anas's narrations made him an important link in the Basran scholarly tradition. Without additional context identifying which Abd al-Aziz is meant in a given chain, this entry acknowledges the several scholars of this name who each contributed to the preservation of prophetic knowledge in the second and third centuries of Islam.