Dimam ibn Tha'laba

Dimam ibn Tha'laba al-Sa'di of Banu Sa'd ibn Bakr ¹.

He appears in Anas's hadith in the two Sahihs: "while we were with the Prophet a desert Arab came saying: which of you is Ibn Abd al-Muttalib?" — in it he became Muslim and said: "I am a messenger from my people behind me, and I am Dimam ibn Tha'laba" ¹. Ibn Hajar notes the hadith's pivot in Bukhari is al-Layth from Sa'id al-Maqburi from Sharik from Anas; Bukhari also cited it suspended, and Muslim connected it through Sulayman ibn al-Mughira from Thabit from Anas ¹.

At the end of the text, after his question about the grave sins, he said: "by God we used to keep clear of them in the Jahiliyya" — when he turned to go the Messenger of God said: "instruct the man" ¹.

Umar ibn al-Khattab used to say: "I have seen no one better in asking nor more concise than Dimam ibn Tha'laba" ¹. In Abu Dawud's account from Ibn Abbas: "Banu Sa'd sent Dimam ibn Tha'laba to the Prophet", and at its end: "we have never heard of a people's delegate who was better than Dimam" ¹.

Al-Baghawi said he lived in Kufa ¹. Ibn Manda's account makes him "of Banu Tamim", which Ibn Hajar rules an error ².