Musʿab said: When ʿĀmir heard the muezzin while he was breathing his last, he said, “Take my hand.”
They replied, “You are ill!”
He answered, “I hear the Caller of Allah and yet I would not respond?”
So they took him by the hand; he entered with the imam for the Maghrib (sunset) prayer, bowed for a single rakʿah (unit of prayer), and then died.
Al-Qaʿnabī said: I heard Mālik say:
“ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Allah would stand at the place where the biers are set out, supplicating, with a cloak on his shoulders; it would fall and he would not notice.”
Maʿn reported from Mālik:
“Sometimes ʿĀmir would leave the ʿAtamah (night) prayer, be overtaken by supplication, and continue praying until dawn.”
I say: There is unanimous agreement on his reliability.
He died in the year a little over one hundred and twenty AH.
He had several brothers: Khubayb, Muḥammad, Ayyūb, Hāshim, Ḥamzah, ʿAbbād, and Thābit.
- Thābit ibn Aslam, Abū Muḥammad al-Bunānī * (ʿ)
The imam, the exemplar, the Shaykh of Islam—Abū Muḥammad al-Bunānī, their client, from Basra.
Bunānah refers to the descendants of Saʿd ibn Luʾayy ibn Ghalib; others say they descend from Saʿd ibn Ḍubayʿah ibn Nizār.
He was born during the caliphate of Muʿāwiyah.
He narrated from: ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar—recorded in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim; ʿAbd Allah ibn Mughafal al-Muzanī—found in Sunan al-Nasaʾī; ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr—found in al-Bukhārī; Abū Barzah al-Aslamī; ʿUmar ibn Abī Salamah al-Makhzūmī, the Prophet’s foster-son—found in al-Tirmidhī and al-Nasaʾī; as well as Anas ibn Mālik and Muṭarrif ibn ʿAbd