with their prophets. Therefore, when I forbid you something, avoid it; and when I command you to do something, then carry out of it whatever you can.(1)

ʿAbd al-Razzaq said: My father—and others as well—informed us that Hammam ibn Munabbih was once sitting with Ibn al-Zubayr. In Najran there was a man from the Abnāʾ whom the people greatly revered; he was called Hanish and he had no beard. A man from Quraysh asked him, “Who are you?”

He replied, “I am from Yemen.”

The Qurashi said, “And what has become of your old woman?”—meaning Hanish.

Hammam answered, “Our ‘old woman’ submitted together with Solomon to Allah, Lord of all worlds, whereas your ‘old woman’ is the carrier of firewood.” The Qurashi was left dumbfounded.

Ibn al-Zubayr said to him, “Do you not realize whom you have just addressed? Why did you provoke Ibn Munabbih?”

Ishaq al-Kawsaj transmitted this report from ʿAbd al-Razzaq.

149 – ʿAli ibn al-Aqmar ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Harith al-Hamdani * (ʿ)
The imam, Abu al-Waziʿ al-Hamdani al-Wadiʿi, from Kufa.

He narrated from: Abu Juhaifah al-Suwayʿi and Usamah ibn Sharik.
He also related from al-Aghar Abu Muslim, Abu Hudhayfah Salamah ibn Suhaybah, Abu al-Ahwas ʿAwf al-Jushami, and others.

Those who reported from him include: al-Aʿmash, Shuʿbah, Sufyan al-Thawri, al-Hasan ibn Salih, Sharik the judge, and many others.

A number of scholars declared him reliable.

150 – Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAmr al-Ansari ** (ʿ)
Ibn Hazm ibn Zayd ibn Lawdhan al-Ansari, al-Khazraji, al-Najjari, from Medina,