whereas I am not—and I would never disagree with him over a single word of the Qur’an.

He added, “I used to meet ʿAlī, ask him, and he would answer me and say, ‘You should go to Zayd.’ So I turned to Zayd and recited the Qur’an to him thirteen times.”

I say: its chain of transmission is not established (1).

ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib also narrated from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān who said, “Those who taught us—ʿUthmān, Ibn Masʿūd, and Ubayy—told me that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to teach them ten verses at a time…,” and he mentioned the rest of the report (2).

Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythamah recorded: Yaḥyā ibn al-Sarī related to us; Wakīʿ related to us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, who said, “A man was reciting to Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and presented him with a bow. He returned it, saying, ‘If only this had been given before the recitation!’ ”
Thus it appears in my notes: Wakīʿ—on the authority of ʿAṭāʾ—yet he did not actually meet him.

And ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib said, “We entered upon Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān to visit him when he was ill. Some of those present tried to raise his hopes, but he said, ‘I place my hope in my Lord, for I have fasted eighty Ramadans for His sake’ (3).”

I say: I do not think he fasted every one of those, though he was reliable both in recitation and in hadith.

His narrations are found in the Six Books.
It is said that he died in 74 AH; others say he passed away during the governorship of Bishr ibn Marwān.