al-Mustawrad ibn Shaddad

Al-Mustawrid ibn Shaddad ibn Amr ibn Hasal ibn al-Ahab ibn Habib ibn Amr ibn Sufyan ibn Muharib ibn Fihr, al-Qurashi al-Fihri al-Makki, resident of Kufa — a Companion, he and his father both having companionship; he transmitted from the Prophet ﷺ and from his father, and his hadith is in the Sahih and the Sunan ¹.

Ibn Hajar says: he and his father had companionship; he transmitted from the Prophet and from his father, who transmitted from Qays ibn Abi Hazim; his hadith is in the Sahih, al-Tirmidhi and elsewhere through Abu Hazim from him: "This world beside the hereafter is only like one of you dipping a finger in the sea — let him see what it brings back"; he has several hadiths with Muslim and in the Sunan ¹. Al-Bukhari suspended a hadith of his on the Basin (al-Hawd) which Muslim connected with full chain ². Ibn Yunus says he died at Alexandria in the year forty-five of the Hijra ².

Al-Mustawrid ibn Shaddad was a Qurashi Companion of Banu Fihr who settled in Kufa; he transmitted a famous hadith comparing this world to the hereafter by a finger dipped in the sea.

• Al-Isaba entry no. 8157 (al-Maktaba al-Asriyya scan, pp. 1399–1400).
• Ibn Hajar places his entry beside two other Mustawrids (Musawir ibn Hind and al-Mustazill ibn Hisn al-Bariqi); ours is specifically the Fihri Makki resident of Kufa.