Ibn Maʿīn and Abū Zurʿah both judged him reliable, and Abū Ḥātim said, “He is truthful.”

I (the author) add: he was nicknamed al-Faqīr because he suffered pain in the vertebrae of his back, and he was one of the senior teachers of Abū Ḥanīfah.

96 – ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Rufayʿ al-Asadī al-Ṭāʾifī * (ʿ)
A hadith scholar of proven reliability, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Asadī, originally from Ṭāʾif and later a resident of Kūfah.

He narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās, Ibn ʿUmar, Anas ibn Mālik, the judge Shurayḥ, Zayd ibn Wahb, ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, and several others.

Those who transmitted from him include Shuʿbah, Sufyān, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, Shurayk, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, and others.

More than one critic declared him trustworthy. His narrations amount to roughly sixty hadiths. Among his own teachers and contemporaries, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār also related from him.

It was said that whenever he married a woman she would soon ask for a divorce, because of the frequency with which he enjoyed her company. He lived to a great age and died when he was over a hundred—some say in his nineties.

He died in 130 AH. Al-Bukhārī remarked: “He met ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her).”

Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us, Ibn Qudāmah narrated to us, Ibn al-Baṭṭī narrated to us, al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭalḥah narrated to us, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Muʿaddal narrated to us, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr narrated to us, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār related to us, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Rufayʿ, from Suwayd ibn Ghafalah, from Abū Dharr, who said:

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