which he will acknowledge. He will then be asked, “What did you do with them?”
He will reply, “I left nothing You love to see spent for Your sake without spending on it.”
He will be told, “You lie. You only wanted people to say, ‘So-and-so is generous,’ and they have already said it.”
He will then be ordered to be dragged on his face until he is cast into the Fire.”

(This is an authentic ḥadith.) (1)

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir said: “Sulaymān ibn Yasār came to us in Damascus, so my father invited him to the bathhouse and prepared food for him.” (2) His father, Yasār, was Persian.

Al-Wāqidī said: “Sulaymān was appointed supervisor of the Medina marketplace by its governor, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.” (3)

Ibn al-Madīnī, al-Bukhārī, and Muslim said: “His kunya was Abū Ayyūb.”

Qatādah reported: “When I arrived in Medina, I asked, ‘Who is the most knowledgeable of its people concerning divorce?’ I was told, ‘Sulaymān ibn Yasār.’” (4)

Abū al-Zinād said: “Sulaymān ibn Yasār used to fast continuously, whereas his brother ʿAṭāʾ would fast one day and break his fast the next.” (5)

174 – ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār al-Madani * (ʿ)
His brother was an imam, jurist, preacher, exhorter, thoroughly reliable, a decisive authority, and a man of great stature.