سفيان بن عبد الله الثقفي

سفيان بن عبد الله الثقفي

A Thaqafi Companion of al-Ta'if who served as Umar ibn al-Khattab (may God be pleased with him)'s governor over the city; he transmits 'say: I believe in God, then stand firm', the twenty-first hadith of al-Nawawi's Forty, included by Muslim in his Sahih through Hisham ibn Urwa from his father from him, the al-Zuhri route from Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Ma'iz adding his question 'what do you most fear for me?' answered by the Prophet taking hold of his own tongue and saying 'this'; his son Abdullah ibn Sufyan also narrates from him in Ahmad and al-Nasa'i.