Qatada

Qatada ibn Di'ama al-Sadusi al-Basri was a prominent Tabi'i scholar of Basra who was born blind. Despite this, he possessed one of the most remarkable memories in the history of hadith scholarship: it is reported that he could memorize a text after hearing it just once, and he never forgot anything he had heard. He narrated from numerous companions including Anas ibn Malik, Sahl ibn Sa'd, and Abdullah ibn Sarjas, and was a major student of al-Hasan al-Basri and Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab. He was an authority in hadith, tafsir, and Arabic language. Some scholars noted that he held Qadarite views on free will, which led a small number of critics to be cautious about him, but the majority regarded him as fully reliable in hadith. He passed away around 117–118 AH. His narrations appear extensively in all six major collections.