Hammād narrated, on the authority of Ibrāhīm:

“Al-Aswad would fast until his tongue turned dark from the heat.”

Manṣūr narrated, on the authority of Ibrāhīm, that al-Aswad used to assume iḥrām (ritual consecration) from inside his own house.

Ashʿath ibn Abī al-Shaʿthāʾ said, “I saw al-Aswad and ʿAmr ibn Maymūn beginning the talbiyah (pilgrimage invocation) from Kūfah.”

Ibn Abī Khālid said, “I saw al-Aswad wearing a black turban.”

Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUbayd Allāh said, “I saw al-Aswad prostrating while clad in a hooded ṭaylasān (cloak).”

Scholars have mentioned several dates for al-Aswad’s death; the soundest view is that it occurred in the year 75 AH—may Allah have mercy on him.

Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī said, “When the time for prayer arrived, al-Aswad would make his camel kneel, even if it was on bare rock.”

14 – ʿAlqamah ibn Qays ibn ʿAbd Allah, Abū Shibl al-Nakhaʿī (ʿ)

The jurist of Kūfah, its foremost scholar and Qur’an teacher—an imam, ḥāfiẓ, master reciter, and great mujtahid—he is Abū Shibl ʿAlqamah ibn Qays ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Mālik ibn ʿAlqamah ibn Salāmān ibn Kahl. (1)

It is also said that he was the son of Kuhayl ibn Bakr ibn ʿAwf.

Another report states that he was the son of al-Muntashir ibn al-Nakhaʿ, the Kufan jurist; that he was the paternal uncle of al-Aswad ibn Yazīd and his brother ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; and that he was the maternal uncle of Iraq’s jurist Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī.

He was born during the days of the Prophetic mission, is counted among the muḥaḍramūn, and he emigrated in