Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbdallāh b. Dhakwān al-Qurashī ( mawlā , client), called Ibn Abī l-Zinād , was a Medinan ḥadīth transmitter who appears in all of the Six Books, although his reputation for accuracy was mixed. He was born in Medina in 100/718-9 and died in Baghdad in 174/790-1 (by most reports), or 175/791-2. His father Abū l-Zinād (d. 130/748?) was a notable Medinan jurisprudent. Ibn Abī l-Zinād was imprisoned and received seventeen lashes over a quarrel with a