“You have put me to hardship.” ʿUmar offered his apology and treated him with honor.

He died a few years after 100 AH.

If al-Awzāʿī did in fact meet him in person, then he was the most senior shaykh from whom al-Awzāʿī ever heard.

137 – Mālik ibn Asmāʾ ibn Khārijah al-Fazārī
One of the foremost poets. He was received in audience by ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān and served as governor of al-Ḥīrah under al-Ḥajjāj.

He was notably handsome and striking in appearance.

From his verses:
“More than once only yesterday I was found downcast,
spending the night in tears and lamentation.
O insistent, anxious well-wisher, take heed:
death pursues us and keeps relentless watch.”

138 – Abū al-Ashʿath al-Ṣanʿānī, Sharāḥīl ibn Ādah (M, 4)
One of the senior scholars of Damascus. There are several views regarding his name; the strongest is Sharāḥīl ibn Ādah.

He narrated from ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit, Thawbān, Shaddād ibn Aws, Abū Hurayrah, Abū Thaʿlabah al-Khushanī, Aws ibn Aws, and others.

Narrators from him include Abū Qilābah al-Jarmī, Ḥassān ibn ʿAṭiyyah, Yaḥyā al-Dhammārī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir, and numerous others.