ʿAṭiyyah; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sābit told me, from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn al-Awdī, who said:

“Muʿādh came to us in Yemen as the Messenger of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, arriving from al-Shiḥr. He was loudly pronouncing the takbīr in a deep, husky voice. Love for him was cast into my heart, and I did not part from him until I had sprinkled earth over him (at his burial).

“After that I looked for the person most learned in jurisprudence, and I came to Ibn Masʿūd.”

Abū Khaythamah transmitted the same report from al-Walīd ibn Muslim, adding the wording: “Love for him was cast into my heart.” (1)

(Kh) Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād related: Hushaym narrated to us, from Abū Balj and Ḥuṣayn, from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn, who said:

“I saw, in the pre-Islamic days, a she-monkey surrounded by a number of monkeys; they stoned her, and I stoned her along with them.” (2)

Shabābah narrated: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muslim told us, ʿĪsā ibn Ḥiṭṭān told us, he said:

ʿAmr ibn Maymūn told us:

“I was in a field when I saw many monkeys gathered together. I noticed a male and a female lying down; the she-monkey placed her hand beneath the male’s neck, embraced him, and they fell asleep.

“Another male came and nudged her. She looked at him, gently drew her hand from beneath the first male’s head, went off with the newcomer a short distance, and he mated with her while I watched. She then returned to her place, tried to slip her hand back under the first male’s neck, but he awoke, stood over her, and sniffed her hindquarters.

“The other monkeys gathered, and he began pointing at her. The troop dispersed, and before long they brought…"