to my father while he was sitting with ʿUmar and announced, “A son has been born to you.” My father replied, “So-and-so has already brought me the news.” The servant said, “This is another one.” Whereupon ʿUmar said, “Then set this one free as well.”

Ibn Ḥibbān said: The two sons of Buraydah were born in the third year of ʿUmar’s caliphate, the year 15 AH. Sulaymān ibn Buraydah died in Marw while serving there as judge in 105 AH. His brother then assumed the judiciary and remained in office until his death in 115 AH, which would make ʿAbd Allāh’s lifespan one hundred years. Anyone who claims that the two brothers died on the same day is mistaken.

Abū Tumaylah narrated: ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Khālid told us, from Ibn Buraydah, who said: “A man ought to keep up three practices and never abandon them: walking—so that when he needs it, he can rely on it; eating—otherwise his bowels will constrict; and marital intimacy—for if a well is left undrawn, its water disappears.”

I say: One should observe these matters with moderation, especially intercourse; once a man grows old, leaving it off is preferable.

Aḥmad, in his Musnad, recorded: Zayd ibn al-Ḥubāb related to us; Ḥusayn told me, from Ibn Buraydah, who said: “My father and I visited Muʿāwiyah. He seated us upon the couch; we ate, then Muʿāwiyah drank and handed the vessel to my father, saying, ‘I have not drunk this since the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade it.’ Muʿāwiyah then added, ‘Among the youths of Quraysh I was the most handsome and the one with the finest teeth, and in my youth I took pleasure in nothing more than milk—or a person with agreeable conversation who would speak to me.’ (1)

16 – His brother: Sulaymān ibn Buraydah al-Aslamī.
Ibn ʿUyaynah regarded him as superior to ʿAbd Allāh ibn Buraydah. He narrated from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, and from ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn.