Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated—through Ismāʿīl: “I said to Zirr, ‘How many years have passed over you?’ He replied, ‘I am one hundred and twenty years old.’
Hushaym said: “Zirr reached one hundred and twenty-two years.”
Al-Haytham said: “He died before the battle of al-Jamājim.”
Abū Nuʿaym said: “He died at the age of one hundred and twenty-seven.”
Zakariyyā ibn Ḥakīm al-Ḥabaṭī related—from al-Shaʿbī—that Zirr once wrote a letter of admonition to ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān. (1)
61 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Hudhayl al-ʿAnazī * (M, T, S)
A paragon, devoted worshipper, and imam; Abū al-Mughīrah al-ʿAnazī, the Kufan.
He transmitted—mursal—from Abū Bakr and ʿUmar, and he also narrated from ʿAlī, ʿAmmār, Ubayy, Ibn Masʿūd, Khabbāb, Abū Hurayrah, and others.
Those who narrated from him include Wāṣil al-Aḥdab, Abū al-Tayyāḥ al-Ḍubāʿī, Ismāʿīl ibn Rajāʾ, Ajlaḥ al-Kindī, Salm ibn ʿAṭiyyah, ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, and al-ʿAwwām ibn Ḥawshab.
Al-Nasāʾī said: “Reliable.”
Abū al-Tayyāḥ remarked: “I never saw him except that he looked as though he were alarmed.”
Al-ʿAwwām reported that Ibn Abī al-Hudhayl said:
“I speak until I fear Allah, and I keep silent until I fear Allah.” (2)
Al-Thawrī narrated—from Abū Sinān—from Ibn Abī al-Hudhayl—that he said:
“We met people who would feel shy before Allah even in the pitch darkness of night.”
Al-Thawrī explained, “He meant uncovering one’s body.”