Al-Awzaʿī and others reported that he would make one thousand prostrations every single day.

Ibn Saʿd said, “He is reliable, though he transmits only a few reports,” and he added: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān once told him, “I cannot allow you to keep both the name and the kunyah together.” The caliph therefore changed his teknonym to Abū Muḥammad, for he had previously been known as Abū al-Ḥasan.

Ikrimah related: “Ibn ʿAbbās said to me and to his son ʿAlī, ‘Go to Abū Saʿīd and listen to his ḥadith.’ So we went to him in one of his orchards.”

Maimūn ibn Ziyād narrated—through Abū Sinān—“ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh was with us in Syria. He had a long beard which he dyed with indigo, and he would offer one thousand cycles of prayer each day.”

ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥamlah said, “I entered upon ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh. He was stout and dark-complexioned, and I noticed on his forehead a large prayer mark.”

Ibn al-Mubārak remarked, “He owned five hundred trees; each day he would perform two cycles of prayer beside every single tree.”

I (the author) say: Both he and his sons were regarded with apprehension by Hishām, who consequently relocated them to al-Ḥumaymah in the district of al-Balqāʾ.

ʿAlī passed away in the year 118 AH.

117 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār al-ʿAdawī al-ʿUmarī, their freedman* (ʿ)
The Imam, hadith master, and authoritative proof, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿAdawī, al-ʿUmarī—their client—from Medina.