198 – Ḥafṣah bint Sīrīn, Umm al-Hudhayl, the jurist * (ʿ), of the Ansar.
She transmitted ḥadith from: Umm ʿAṭiyyah, Umm ar-Rāʾiḥ, her patron Anas b. Mālik, and Abū al-ʿĀliyah.
Those who related from her include her brother Muḥammad, Qatādah, Ayyūb, Khālid al-Ḥadhdhaʾ, Ibn ʿAwn, and Hishām b. Ḥassān.
Iyās b. Muʿāwiyah said, “I never met anyone I would rank above her.”
He also said, “She had mastered the Quran when she was twelve years old, and she lived to be seventy. When people mentioned al-Ḥasan and Ibn Sīrīn to him, he replied, ‘As for me, I would place no one above her.’”
Mahdī b. Maymūn stated, “Ḥafṣah bint Sīrīn remained in her place of prayer for thirty years, leaving it only for a midday siesta or to relieve herself.”
I say: She died sometime after 100 AH.
199 – ʿAmrah bint ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Saʿd al-Ansāriyyah ** (ʿ), traced as well to Ibn Zurārah b. ʿUdus, of the Najjār clan, a Medinan jurist, childhood companion and student of ʿĀʾishah.
It is said that her father enjoyed Companionship, and that her grandfather Saʿd was among the earliest Companions; he was the brother of the eminent clan chief Asʿad b. Zurārah.