al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥabīb; al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-Bayrūtī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Shuʿayb informed us; Muʿān ibn Rifāʿa narrated to us, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, who said:

“The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) instructed Saʿd ibn Muʿādh to have the akḥal (basilic vein) cauterised after the Banū al-Naḍīr had struck him, so he underwent cauterisation.”

This is a singular ḥadīth, and Muʿān is not particularly strong. (1)

Those who died in the same year as Tamām include: the ḥāfiẓ Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAmr al-Aṣbahānī al-Naqqāsh (2), a Ḥanbalī and author of numerous works; the Shaykh of the Sacred Precinct, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jahḍam (3) al-Hamadhānī, an ascetic and author of Bahjat al-Asrār—though he was weak; the hadith scholar of Baghdad, Abū al-Fatḥ Hilāl ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaffār; the musnid of Nīshāpūr, Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Muzakkī (4); the musnid of Basra, Judge Abū ʿUmar al-Qāsim ibn Jaʿfar al-Hāshimī (5); the exemplar among the shaykhs of Isfahān, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Mīlah (6), a specialist in inheritance law; and the hadith scholar of Tripoli, Abū ʿAbd Allāh—