Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Ḥajjāj also said in his Tahdhīb (1): “Zirr ibn Ḥubaysh ibn Ḥubāshah ibn Aws ibn Bilāl—though some say Hilāl in place of Bilāl—ibn Saʿd ibn Ḥabbāl ibn Naṣr ibn Ghāḍirah ibn Mālik ibn Thaʿlabah ibn Ghanm ibn Dūdān ibn Asad ibn Khuzaymah, of the Asad tribe. He was a mukhaḍram, having lived through the pre-Islamic period.

“He transmitted from …”—and he thereupon named (2) those already mentioned—“as well as Saʿīd ibn Zayd, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, Abū Dharr, ʿĀʾishah, and Abū Wāʾil, who was one of his peers.

“Those who narrated from him include …—following the detailed enumeration of the previously cited names—together with Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, Zubayd al-Yāmī, Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif, Shimr ibn ʿAṭiyyah, al-Shaʿbī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Marzūq al-Dimashqī, ʿUthmān ibn al-Jahm, ʿAlqamah ibn Marthad, ʿĪsā ibn ʿĀṣim al-Asadī, ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, and Abū Razīn Masʿūd ibn Mālik.”

Shaybān narrated—from ʿĀṣim—from Zirr: “I said to Ubayy, ‘O Abū al-Mundhir, lower your wing for me (3); I simply wish to benefit from you for a while.’”

Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah narrated—from al-Aʿmash—who said: “I met our elders, Zirr and Abū Wāʾil. Among them were those for whom ʿUthmān was dearer than ʿAlī, and among them were those for whom ʿAlī was dearer than ʿUthmān; yet they were bound by the strongest mutual love and affection.”

Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ narrated—from ʿĀṣim—who said: “A man passed by Zirr while he was giving the adhān (call to prayer). The man said, ‘O Abū Maryam, I used to hold you in too much esteem for that.’ Zirr replied, ‘Then I will not speak a single word to you until you meet Allah.’”