Abu Khaldah related: I heard Abu al-ʿĀliyah say, “ʿAbd al-Karīm Abū Umayyah once paid me a visit wearing woollen clothing, so I told him, ‘That is the habit of monks; when Muslims visit one another they present themselves well.’
Hammad ibn Salamah transmitted—on the authority of ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal—that Abu al-ʿĀliyah instructed Muwarraq al-ʿIjlī to place two palm-frond stalks in his grave (1).
Muwarraq added, “Buraidah al-Aslamī—may Allah be pleased with him—also directed that two such stalks be put in his grave” (2).
I read to Isḥāq al-Asadī, who reported: Ibn Khalīl informed you; Abū al-Makārim al-Taymī informed us; al-Ḥaddād informed us; Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us; Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; Isḥāq narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us; Maʿmar narrated from Thābit, from Abu al-ʿĀliyah, who said: “When Jesus son of Mary was taken up, he left nothing behind except a woollen cloak, a shepherd’s pair of sandals, and a sling with which he used to drive away birds” (3).
Abu Khaldah also said: Abu al-ʿĀliyah died in Shawwal, 90 AH.
Al-Bukhārī (4) and others held that he died in 93 AH, while al-Madāʾinī erred in claiming that he died in 106 AH.