Al-Walīd ibn Hishām said: ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz used to feel tender toward him because of his piety. A debt of four thousand dinars had been recorded against him, and ʿUmar promised to clear it, telling him, “Appoint your brother al-Walīd as your agent.” He did so, but ʿUmar then said to him, “I dislike paying this entire sum on behalf of one man, even if he spent it for a rightful cause.” Al-Walīd replied, “O Commander of the Believers, part of a believer’s character is to fulfil what he has promised.” ʿUmar said, “Woe to you! You have put me in a difficult position,” and he did not discharge the debt.

Al-Mufaḍḍal al-Ghālabi said: All those known as the “servants of the Most Merciful” from Quraysh were devoted worshippers—ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād ibn Abī Sufyān, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khālid ibn al-Walīd, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abān ibn ʿUthmān, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiyah.

It was also said that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd persevered in worship until he became like a worn-out water-skin.

15 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Buraydah ibn al-Ḥuṣayb al-Aslamī (ʿ)

The ḥāfiẓ, the imam, the shaykh and qāḍī of Marw, Abū Sahl al-Aslamī al-Marwazī; he was the twin brother of Sulaymān ibn Buraydah, and both were born in 15 AH.

He narrated abundantly from his father, and also from ʿImrān ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal al-Muzanī, Abū Mūsā, ʿĀʾishah, and Umm Salamah—these reports are found in the Sunan collections.

Tirmidhī likewise records a narration from his mother, from Umm Salamah.

He also transmitted from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Sahmī, Ibn ʿUmar, and Samurah ibn —