saying, “I perform such and such units of prayer each day.” Later, Yazīd ibn Abī Muslim summoned him, harassed him, and treated him harshly, so he would pray:
“Allahumma al-ḥiqnī bil-akhyār, wa-lā tukhallifnī maʿa l-ashrār, wa-sqinī min ʿadhb al-anhār (O Allah, join me to the righteous, do not leave me among the wicked, and let me drink from the sweet rivers).” ⦗1⦘
Al-Fallās and others said: he died in 75 AH.
Another opinion: in 76.
Abū Nuʿaym and others said: he died in 74 AH.
59 – Shaqīq ibn Salamah, Abū Wāʾil al-Asadī al-Kūfī * (ʿ)
The great Imām, the shaykh of Kūfa, Abū Wāʾil al-Asadī—of the clan of Asad Khuzaymah, a Kufan.
He was a mukhaḍram, having lived during the Prophet’s ﷺ time even though he never saw him.
He narrated from ʿUmar, ʿUthmān, ʿAlī, ʿAmmār, Muʿādh, Ibn Masʿūd, Abū al-Dardāʾ, Abū Mūsā, Ḥudhayfa, ʿĀʾisha, Khabbāb, Usāma ibn Zayd, al-Ashʿath ibn Qays, Salmān ibn Rabīʿa, Sahl ibn Ḥanīf, Shayba ibn ʿUthmān, ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith al-Muṣṭaliqī, Qays ibn Abī Garaza, Abū Hurayra, Abū al-Hayyāj al-Asadī, and many others.
He also transmitted from his contemporaries, such as Masrūq, ʿAlqama, and Ḥumrān ibn Abān.
He was counted among the imams of the religion, and some even held that he reported from Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq.