The Sufficient (Vol 5) · Hadith 1224 (#Ḥadīth #2)

2- أَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْحَجَّالِ عَنْ غَالِبِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ خَالِدٍ قَالَ أَتَيْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ فَخَرَجَ إِلَيَّ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا عُقْبَةُ شَغَلَتْنَا عَنْكَ هَؤُلاءِ النِّسَاءُ.

2. Ahmad ibn al-Hajjal has narrated from Ghalib ibn ‘Uthman from “Uqbah ibn Khalid who has said the following: “I once went to see abu ‘Abd Allah , and he (the Imam) came to me saying, ‘O ‘Uqbah, the women held us back from meeting you.”’

Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).