for three days, our faces as though they had been smeared with ash.
I said to him, “What sort of man were you at that time?”
He replied, “A married man.”
Al-Muṭayyin said: He died in 136 AH.
187 – Among those named Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān *
He is the son of ʿAmr ibn Saʿd ibn Muʿādh, an Anṣārī of the clan of al-Ashhal.
He narrated from Anas and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Isḥāq, Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Azraq, and his own son, Muḥammad ibn Ḥuṣayn.
His traditions are recorded by Abū Dāwūd and al-Nasāʾī.
He left only a small corpus of reports.
He died in 126 AH, in Medina.
188 – Among them: Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Juʿfī, of Kūfah **
Ṭuʿmah ibn Ghīlān transmits from him.
189 – And Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥārithī, of Kūfah ***
He narrated from al-Shaʿbī,
while Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāh and others relate from him.
190 – And Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nakhaʿī, of Kūfah ****
He likewise narrated from al-Shaʿbī,
and Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth transmits from him.
Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq informed us; Wāthilah ibn Karrāz in Baghdad informed us; Abū ʿAlī al-Raḥabī informed us; Ibn Ṭalḥah informed us; Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī informed us; Abū ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us