- Ṣafwān ibn Muḥriz al-Māzinī al-Baṣrī * (Bukhārī, Muslim)
The devoted worshipper, one of the notable authorities.
He transmitted reports from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn, Ḥakīm ibn Ḥizām, and Ibn ʿUmar.
Among those who narrated from him are Jāmiʿ ibn Shaddād, Bakr al-Muzanī, Qatādah, Thābit, Muḥammad ibn Wāsiʿ, ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Judʿān, and others.
Ibn Saʿd⦗1⦘ said, “He is reliable, possessed of merit and piety.”
Another stated, “He was a preacher, devoutly obedient to Allah; he had dug for himself a secluded tunnel⦗2⦘ in which he would weep.”
ʿUthmān ibn Maṭar related—from Hishām, from al-Ḥasan—who said:
“I met people who were more abstemious concerning what Allah had made lawful for them than you are regarding what He has forbidden you. I kept company with men, one of whom would eat on the ground and sleep on the ground; among them was Ṣafwān ibn Muḥriz. He used to say, ‘When I go home to my family and find a single loaf of bread, may Allah repay this world—and those attached to it—with the worst recompense.’
“By Allah, he never possessed more than that one loaf until he died. He would spend the day fasting and break his fast with the loaf, pray until dawn, then take the mushaf and recite until the morning light rose high. After that he would pray, then sleep until Ẓuhr; that was the only sleep he allowed himself until he left this world. From Ẓuhr until ʿAṣr he prayed, and then read from the mushaf until the sun turned yellow.”
This narration is unique to this same ʿUthmān, and he is not a strong transmitter.