would preach, and when he was done he would tell one of his slave-girls to admonish the people and to chant melodiously ⦗1⦘. I felt inclined to send him a note saying, “You come from a household of integrity. Allah did not send His Prophet with foolishness, and what you are doing is nothing but foolishness.”
Zayd ibn ʿAwf reported: Saʿīd ibn Zarbā narrated to us from Thābit al-Bunānī, who said:
“Awn owned a slave-girl called Bushrah who recited the Quran in a melodious style. One day he said to her, ‘Recite for my brothers.’ She began reciting in a sorrowful, plaintive voice, and I saw them casting aside their turbans and weeping. On another day he said to her, ‘O Bushrah, I have been offered one thousand dinars for you because of the beauty of your voice. Go—you are free for the sake of Allah.’
He died in about 113 AH.
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ʿAwn ibn Abī Juḥayfah Wahb al-Suwayʿī, son of ʿAbd Allāh al-Suwayʿī, from Kufa.
He transmitted from his father, from al-Mundhir ibn Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh, and from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sumayr.
Those who transmitted from him include Mālik ibn Mighwal, Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāt, ʿUmar ibn Abī Zāʾidah, Shuʿbah, Sufyān al-Thawrī, and Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ.
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn declared him reliable.
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Muḥammad ibn Zayd ibn ʿAbd Allāh, grandson of the Commander of the Believers ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb—Abū ʿĀṣim al-ʿAdawī,