Qatada ibn Di'amah al-Sadusi or Abu Khattab (Arabic: قتادة بن دعامة السدوسي) (died 117 AH/735 AD) was a mufassir and Muhaddith who lived in Basra, Iraq.
He came from the clan of Sadus, from the northern Arab tribe of Banu Shayban.
[1] Little is known about his life, and the earliest accounts of him were compiled by Ibn Sa'd in his "Book of the Major Classes".
[2] He was blind; he relied on his memory in passing on his knowledge in the fields of hadith, tafsir, Arabic poetry and genealogy, which was already considered proverbial in his lifetime.
According to some reports mentioned by al-Mizzī and al-Dhahabī in their scholarly biographies, Qatāda died of the plague in Wasit in 117 (Hijri Calendar)/735 A.D.