He lived to the age of one hundred and twenty years.

From him it is related that he said, “The Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—was commissioned while I was herding camels at Kâẓimah. On the day of al-Qādisiyyah I was forty years old.” (1)

ʿĀṣim ibn Abī al-Najūd stated: “Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī used to teach the Qur’an in the Great Mosque. I recited to him, then asked him about a verse, whereupon he suspected me of following a partisan inclination.”

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said: “A Kufan, reliable.”

I say: He is one of the transmitters cited in the Six Books.

He died—so far as I can tell—during the caliphate of al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik.

65 – al-Maʿrūr ibn Suwayd Abū Umayyah al-Asadī al-Kūfī * (ʿ)

The imam, long-lived; Abū Umayyah al-Asadī, the Kufan.

He narrated hadith from Ibn Masʿūd, Abū Dharr, and others.

Those who reported from him include Wāṣil al-Aḥdab, Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah, Mughīrah al-Yashkurī, and Sulaymān al-Aʿmash.

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn rated him trustworthy.

Abū Ḥātim (2) recorded that al-Aʿmash said, “I saw him when he was one hundred and twenty years old, with hair and beard still jet-black.”

I say: He died in the year eighty-something.

66 – Ṭalḥah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAwf al-Zuhrī ** (Kh, 4)

He was the judge of Medina during the reign of Yazīd.