Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAjlī said, “Talḥah regarded nabīdh (fermented drink) as unlawful.”

I add: he also loved ʿUthmān—may Allah be pleased with him; these are two rare qualities in a man of Kūfah.

Talḥah died toward the end of the year 112 AH.

71 – Abū al-Zāhiriyyah, Hudayr ibn Kurayb al-Ḥimṣī (his reports are found in Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, and Ibn Mājah)

A celebrated imam, one of the scholars of Greater Syria.

He heard ḥadith from Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Busr, Jubayr ibn Nufayr, and a number of others.

He also transmitted mursal reports from Abū al-Dardāʾ, Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān, and several others.

Those who narrated from him include Ibrāhīm ibn Abī ʿAblah, Saʿīd ibn Sinān, Aḥwaṣ ibn Ḥakīm, Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, and others.

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā says in his History: “They claim he met Abū al-Dardāʾ, and he was illiterate—he did not write.”

Yahyā ibn Maʿīn and others declared him trustworthy.

Qutaybah reported: Shihāb ibn Khirāsh narrated to us from Ḥumayd ibn Abī al-Zāhiriyyah, from his father, who said:

“I dozed off against a rock inside Bayt al-Maqdis. The custodians came and locked the door on me. I awoke only to the angels’ glorification. Startled, I sprang up and found the place arranged in rows, so I joined them in the line.”

Abū ʿUbayd and others said: “Abū al-Zāhiriyyah died in 100 AH.”

Al-Madāʾinī said: “It was during the caliphate of ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.”

Ibn Saʿd and Shabāb said: “He passed away in 117 AH.”