Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Ḥimṣī said, “Sulaym lived on after the year 112 AH.”
I (the author) say: he passed the age of one hundred by two years. As for the statement of Muḥammad ibn Saʿd (1) and Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ (2) that he died in 130 AH, that is far-fetched; I do not think he survived to that date. Had he been alive then, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh and his contemporaries would have taken narration from him.
66 – Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥibbān al-Anṣārī (ʿ)
Ibn Munqid ibn ʿAmr, the Imām, jurist, and authoritative scholar; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, al-Najjārī, al-Māzinī, al-Madani; the grandson of the Companion who used to be duped in sales and would say, “lā khilābah” (no deception). (3)
Birth: 47 AH.
He narrated from: Ibn ʿUmar, Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj, Anas ibn Mālik, ʿAbd Allāh ibn
(1) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqāt, vol. 7, p. 467.
(2) Al-Tabaqāt, p. 313.
(*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqāt, 7:449–450; Khalīfah, al-Tabaqāt, p. 258; al-Bukhārī, al-Tārīkh al-kabīr, 1:265; al-Fasawī, al-Tārīkh, 1:389; Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Jarḥ wa-l-taʿdīl, 8:122-123; al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, no. 1284; al-Dhahabī, Tadhhīb al-tahdhīb, 4/8/2; al-Dhahabī, Tārīkh al-Islām, 5:162; al-Dhahabī, al-ʿIbar, 1:153; Ibn Ḥajar, Tahdhīb al-tahdhīb, 9:507; Khulāṣat Tadhhīb al-kamāl, p. 363; Ibn al-ʿImād, Shadharāt al-dhahab, 1:159.
(3) Al-khilābah means deceit; it is the verbal noun of khalabtu (“I deceived”), akhlabuhu khilāban wa khilābah. A proverb says: “If you cannot ghalab (overpower), then akhlab (outwit),” i.e. when force fails, resort to stratagem. The ḥadīth is reported by Mālik, 2/685 (Kitāb al-Buyūʿ, Bāb Jāmiʿ al-buyūʿ); by al-Bukhārī, 4/283 (Kitāb al-Buyūʿ, “What is disliked of deception in sales,” and also under al-Istiqarāḍ, al-Khuṣūmāt, and al-Ḥiyal); and by Muslim, no. 1533 (Kitāb al-Buyūʿ, “One who is cheated in a sale”), all through Ibn ʿUmar: a man complained to the Messenger of Allah that he was cheated in transactions, so the Prophet replied, “When you conclude a sale, say: lā khilābah (no deception).” Thereafter the man would declare “lā khilābah” at every sale. Aḥmad transmits it via Ibn Isḥāq—“Nāfiʿ told me from Ibn ʿUmar: there was a man from the Anṣār”—and Ibn al-Jārūd in al-Muntaqā, no. 567, adds through Sufyān from Nāfiʿ that the man was Ḥibbān b. Munqid (with an open ḥāʾ and a doubled bāʾ).