Abu'l-Jarud Ziyad ibn al-Mundhir ibn Ziyad al-Hamdani al-Qarifi was an earlyZaydiShi'a scholar, and the namesake founder of the Zaydi branch ofJarudiyya. Bornc. 700, he was blind from birth, but became a leading disciple of the Shi'a imamMuhammad al-Baqir, and is recorded as aTabi'un transmitter ofhadith and commentator of theQuran, although laterSunni andTwelver Shi'a traditions disparage him as unreliable. Abu'l-Jarud was a supporter of thefailed revolt ofZayd ibn Ali in 740, and in its aftermath he refused to acknowledge al-Baqir's son,Ja'far al-Sadiq, as imam. This earned him the hostility of later Twelver Shi'a scholars, who nevertheless accept some of the traditions relayed by him, whereasSunnis generally reject him as unreliable. He died sometime after 757/767.[1]