of those who return to You, for the gratitude of the patient toward You, for the patience of the grateful toward You, and for reunion with the living whom You have provided for in Your presence.” (1)

Abū Zurʿah said, “Ṭalq heard from Ibn ʿAbbās. He is reliable, though he inclined to irjāʾ.”

Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated from Ibn Abī Najīḥ who said, “In our town no one looked after his prayer better than Ṭalq ibn Ḥabīb.” (2)

Kulthūm ibn Jabr reported: “In Basrah, people who wished for something would say, ‘The devotion of Ṭalq ibn Ḥabīb and the forbearance of Muslim ibn Yasār.’” (3)

Ṭalq died before the year 100 AH.

240 – al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿArzab al-Ashʿarī * (Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah)

It is also said: ibn ʿArzam. (4)

He was a commander, the deputy governor of Damascus under ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. His honorific was Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ashʿarī, and he was also known as al-Ṭabarānī and al-Urdunnī.

He transmitted from Abū Hurayrah, Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghanm, and the latter’s son.

Among those who narrated from him were Makḥūl, Muḥammad ibn Ziyād al-Alhānī, Abū Ṭalḥah al-Khawlānī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Zabr, al-Awzāʿī, and Ḥarīz ibn ʿUthmān.