Malik bin Huwairith

Anas ibn Sirin was a Tabi'i scholar and the younger brother of the famous Muhammad ibn Sirin — the renowned Basran hadith scholar and dream interpreter. He narrated from companions including Anas ibn Malik and Ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with them, as well as from his own brother Muhammad. He was regarded as a reliable transmitter by hadith critics, though he is considerably less prolific than his brother. He was from Basra and transmitted hadith within the Basran scholarly tradition. His narrations appear in Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, and the major Sunan collections. He is an example of a narrator whose significance lies primarily in his role as an important link in certain chains of transmission rather than in the volume of his narrations. Scholars who examined him considered him thiqah (trustworthy), and his narrations provide additional corroboration for some of the narrations transmitted by his more famous brother. He died around the same period as the early second century of the Hijra.