and that was the beginning of my Islam. I then returned to Medina, and the Prophet ﷺ had already passed away. (1)

ʿUmārah al-Miʿwalī said, “I heard Abū Rajāʾ say: ‘We used to scoop up sand, pack it together, milk over it, and worship it; and we would take a white stone and worship that as well. (2)’”

Abū al-Ashhab said, “Abū Rajāʾ al-ʿAṭāradī used to lead us in night prayer, completing a full recitation of the Qur’an every ten nights.”

Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr (3) and others stated: “Abū Rajāʾ died in the year 105 AH, having lived for more than one hundred and twenty years.”

More than one historian said that he died in 107 AH, and it has also been said: in 108 AH.

94 – al-Aswad ibn Hilāl Abū Salām al-Muḥāribī * (Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasaʾī)

A Kufan, one of the senior Successors, who had witnessed the pre-Islamic era. He transmitted hadith from ʿUmar, Muʿādh, Ibn Masʿūd, and Abū Hurayrah, though he was not a prolific narrator.

Those who reported from him include Ashʿath ibn Abī al-Shaʿthāʾ, Abū Isḥāq al-Sabiʿī, Abū Ḥuṣayn ʿUthmān ibn ʿĀṣim, and others. Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn declared him reliable. He died in the year 84 AH.