Biography of Al-Harith ibn Hani'
Ibn Abi Shamir ibn Jabalah ibn 'Adi ibn Rabi'ah ibn Mu'awiyah al-Kindi [(٣)].
Ibn al-Kalbi mentioned that he came as a delegate to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and was present on the day of Sabat [(٤)] at al-Mada'in, and he was (entered) among two thousand five hundred in the stipend register.
And Ibn Shahin related it, and Abu Musa and Ibn Fathun added it (to Ibn Mandah's work).
[(١)] Dropped in a.
[(٢)] Ahmad related it in al-Musnad 3/492, 4/63, 341, 5/371, 376, and al-Bayhaqi in al-Sunan al-Kubra 6/21, and Ibn Sa'd in al-Tabaqat 6/27, and Abu Bakr al-Khatib in Tarikh Baghdad 4/263, and Ibn 'Asakir in al-Tarikh 1/324.
[(٣)] Usd al-Ghabah, entry (٩٧٧).
[(٤)] (Sabat Kisra): a village that was near al-Mada'in, by which there was a bridge over Nahr al-Malik, and it is as if the village was named after the bridge because it is a vaulted passage (sabat).
And Sabat: a small town well known beyond the river (Transoxiana), ten farsakhs from Khujand.
See:
Marasid al-Ittila' 2/680.