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« He was among the devout men who eschewed government service under the Umayyad regime. He is buried in Basra. Sulamī, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥabīb b. Rubayʿa (d. ca 70/689–90 or 72/691–2). A Kufan Qurʾān reciter from among the generation of Followers, he was also a transmitter of ḥadīth. Appendix of Names Cited 331 Ṭāwūs b. Kaysān al-Khawlānī (d. 106/724–5). Regarded as one of the leading scholars of the genera- tion of Followers in Mecca. He studied under Ibn ʿAbbās and was particularly knowledgeable in matters of law, ḥadīth and the recitation of the Qurʾān. Thawbān b. Yuḥdad (d. 54/673–4). One of the freed slaves of the Prophet, whom he continued to »