and the Mother of the Believers; ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ; Abū Hurayrah; ʿIyāḍ ibn Ḥimār; and several others.
Those who narrated from him were Qatādah, Saʿīd al-Jurayrī, Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, Sulaymān al-Taymī, Qurrah ibn Khālid, and a number of others.
He used to say, “I am ten years older than al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī.” On that basis, I calculate that his birth fell during the caliphate of al-Ṣiddīq.
He was trustworthy, virtuous, and of great standing. We have been told that while reading from the muṣḥaf he would sometimes lose consciousness.
I read to Isḥāq al-Asadī, who informed us; Ibn Khulayid informed us; Abū al-Makārim al-Taymī informed us; Abū ʿAlī the reciter informed us; Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ, with his chain, from Thābit al-Bunānī, who said:
“Al-Ḥasan was in a gathering when someone said to Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Shikhkhir, ‘Speak.’ He replied, ‘Am I even present here?’ … He then spoke about speech and the burden that accompanies it. (1)”
I say: The scholar should speak with intention and a sound purpose. If he becomes pleased with his own words, let him keep silent; and if he becomes pleased with his silence, let him speak. He must never slacken in calling himself to account, for the soul loves prominence and praise.
Yazīd died in the year 108 AH; it is also said that he died in 111 AH.
Abū Khuldah said, “I saw Abū al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Shikhkhir dyeing his beard yellow.”
194 – ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥayriz ibn Junādah ibn Wahb al-Qurashī * (ʿ)
The imam, jurist, exemplar, godly scholar, Abū Muḥayriz al-Qurashī, al-Jumahī, of Mecca.