Muhārib died in the year 116 AH.
Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah narrated—from his father—from Muhārib, who said:
“I once met ʿImrān ibn Ḥiṭṭān, and neither of us asked the other about his doctrinal inclination.”
ʿImrān was a Kharijite, while Muhārib leaned toward Shiʿism.
- ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām al-Asadī * (ʿ)
The Imam, the godly scholar, Abū al-Ḥārith al-Asadī, a Madinan—one of the devoted worshippers.
He received hadith from his father and from ʿAmr ibn Sulaym.
Those who reported from him include Abū Sakhra Jāmiʿ, Ibn ʿAjlān, ʿAbd Allah ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Hind, Ibn Jurayj, Mālik, and others.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said: Sufyān narrated to us that ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Allah “bought himself from Allah” six times—that is, each time he would give in charity the full amount of his blood money.
Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār said: Because of what he observed from him, ʿĀmir’s father used to say, “I saw Abu Bakr and ʿUmar, yet they were not like this.”
Mālik said: ʿĀmir would fast continuously for three days at a time (1).
Umar reports it as a statement of the Prophet: “The feet of the false witness will not move until Allah makes Hellfire obligatory for him.” In the chain appears Muhammad ibn al-Furat, whose weakness is unanimously agreed upon; Ahmad even called him a liar. The report is found in al-Mustadrak, 4/98, where al-Hakim declared it sound—an error. The editor is amazed that the author endorsed this ruling in his Mukhtasar, for when he treated Muhammad ibn al-Furat in al-Mizan he quoted Ahmad and Abu Dawud branding him a liar, cited several other critics who weakened him, and listed this hadith among the mankar (rejected) reports.
(*) Nasab Quraysh, p. 243; Tabaqat Khalifah, p. 259; Tarikh al-Kabir, 6/448; Tarikh al-Fasawi, 1/665; al-Jarh wa-l-Ta‘dil, 6/325; Hilyat al-Awliya’, 3/166, 168; Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 645; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 2/117/2; Tarikh al-Islam, 5/91; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 5/74; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 184.
(1) Perhaps the following prophetic hadith had not reached him: Malik, 1/300; al-Bukhari, 4/177; and Muslim, no. 1102, all relate from Ibn Umar that the Prophet forbade wisal (continuous fasting). They said, “Yet you yourself practice it,” and he replied, “I am not like you; my Lord feeds me and gives me drink.” Imam al-Nawawi comments that the Shafiʿi scholars unanimously prohibit wisal, defined as fasting two or more consecutive days without any food or drink in between.