He also related that he said, “I have never disputed with anyone at all.” (1)
ʿAmr ibn Mālik reported from him and said, “To sit with swine is dearer to me than to sit with anyone from the people of deviant passions.” (2)
Abū al-Jawzāʾ was exceptionally strong. Nūḥ ibn Qays transmitted from Sulaymān al-Rabaʿī, who said: “Abū al-Jawzāʾ would fast continuously for a whole week, and when he took hold of a young man’s arm he would almost crush it.” (3)
151 – Shahr ibn Ḥawshab, Abū Saʿīd al-Ashʿarī * (4, M, Maqrūnan)
A Syrian, the freedman of the female Companion Asmāʾ bint Yazīd al-Anṣārīyyah; he was among the leading scholars of the Successors.
He narrated from his patroness Asmāʾ, and from Abū Hurayrah, ʿĀʾishah, Ibn ʿAbbās, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr, Umm Salamah, Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, and others.
He recited the Qur’an to Ibn ʿAbbās.
He sent mursal reports on the authority of Bilāl, Abū Dharr, Salmān, and a group besides them.
Those who transmitted from him include Qatādah, Muʿāwiyah ibn Qurrah, al-Ḥakam ibn ʿUtaybah, and Abū Bishr Jaʿfar.
(1) Al-miraʾ means contentious debate. A transmitted report states: “Whoever abandons argument while he is in the right, Allah will build for him a house in Paradise.”
(2) Al-Hilya, vol. 3, p. 78 (the material enclosed in brackets is taken from this source); see also Ibn Saʿd, vol. 7, p. 224.
(3) Al-Hilya, vol. 3, pp. 79–80. The Prophet ﷺ explicitly forbade sawm al-wisal (continuous fasting) in sound hadiths.
(*) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 7:449; Khalifa ibn Khayyat, Tabaqat, no. 2931; al-Bukhari, Tarikh, 4:258; Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿarif, p. 448; Yaʿqubi, al-Maʿrifa wa-l-Tarikh, 2:97; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, vol. 2 (part 1), p. 382; Abu Nuʿaym, al-Hilya, 6:59; Abu Nuʿaym, Dhikr Akhbar Isfahan, 1:343; al-Shirazi, Tabaqat al-Fuqahaʾ, p. 74; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh, 8:69 b; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 589; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 4:12; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, 1:119; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 2:82 b; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 9:304 (see also p. 176); Ibn al-Jazari, Ghayat al-Nihaya, no. 1434; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 4:369; Ibn Taghribirdi, al-Nujum al-Zahira, 1:271; Ibn Hajar, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, p. 169; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharāt al-Dhahab, 1:119; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tahdhib, 6:345.