so long as this scholar remains in your midst.⦗1⦘
A similar wording was transmitted by Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, from Abū Ḥuṣayn, from Abū ʿAṭiyyah.
Ghundar likewise related it, from Shuʿbah, from Abū Qays, from Huzayl ibn Shuraḥbīl, with roughly the same phrasing.
Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd—reporting from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū ʿUbaydah—said:
“I heard Abū Mūsā say, ‘One session in which I sat with Ibn Masʿūd is, in my estimation, more reassuring than a year’s worth of deeds.’⦗2⦘”
Al-Thawrī—on the authority of al-Aʿmash, from ʿUmārah ibn ʿUmayr, from Ḥurayth ibn Ẓuhayr—said:
“When the news of ʿAbd Allah’s death reached Abū al-Dardāʾ, he exclaimed, ‘He has left no one like him behind.’⦗3⦘”
Yahyā al-Qaṭṭān heard that report from Sufyān.
Abū Ḥafṣ al-Abbār—through Manṣūr, from Muslim, from Masrūq—said:
“I surveyed the Companions of Muhammad ﷺ and found that their knowledge had culminated in six men: ʿAlī, ʿUmar, ʿAbd Allah, Zayd, Abū al-Dardāʾ, and Ubayy.
Then I examined those six and discovered that their knowledge had reached…"
(1) Reported by Ahmad, 1/463; by al-Bukhari, 12/13, 14, in the Book of Inheritance, chapter “The share of a son’s daughter together with a (full) daughter,” through the isnad of Shu‘bah – Abu Qays – Huzayl b. Shurahil.
It is also recorded by Abu Dawud (no. 2890) in the Book of Inheritance, chapter “What is related concerning the inheritance of direct descendants,” through al-A‘mash – Abu Qays al-Awdi – Huzayl b. Shurahil.
Likewise by al-Darimi, 2/348, al-Tirmidhi (no. 2093) and Ibn Majah (no. 2721) in their respective Books of Inheritance, through Sufyan al-Thawri – Abu Qays al-Awdi – Huzayl b. Shurahil, who said:
“Abu Musa al-Ash‘ari was asked about (the case of) a daughter, a son’s daughter and a sister. He answered: ‘The daughter receives one-half and the sister one-half; Ibn Masud will agree with me.’
Ibn Masud was consulted and informed of Abu Musa’s reply. He said: ‘Then I have surely erred and am not one of the rightly guided! I give the same verdict that the Prophet ﷺ gave: the daughter receives one-half, the son’s daughter one-sixth—completing two-thirds—and whatever remains is for the sister.’
We went back to Abu Musa and told him what Ibn Masud had ruled. He said: ‘Do not ask me so long as this scholar is among you.’”
(2) Its transmitters are trustworthy, but the chain is interrupted. It is also reported by al-Fasawi, 2/545, in Ma‘rifat wa-l-tarikh.
(3) Reported by al-Bukhari in his al-Tarikh al-saghir, 1/60, through the isnad of Musaddad – Yahya al-Qattan – Sufyan: “Sufyan related to us from al-A‘mash – ‘Imarah – Hurayth b. Zuhayr.” Hurayth b. Zuhayr is unknown, as stated in al-Taqrib. The remaining transmitters are reliable. The phrase “from al-A‘mash” is missing in the copy before us; we have restored it from al-Tarikh.