He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 133 AH, after having supervised that year’s pilgrimage season, at the age of forty-two.

199 – Abū al-Zinād ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dhakwān al-Qurashī al-Madanī*
The imam, jurist, ḥadīth master, and mufti Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qurashī al-Madanī, better known as Abū al-Zinād.

His father was the freedman of Ramla bint Shaybah ibn Rabīʿa, the wife of the Caliph ʿUthmān. It is also said that he was the client of ʿĀʾishah bint ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, or, more generally, the client of the household of ʿUthmān. Another report claims that Dhakwān was the brother of Abū Luʾluʾa, the assassin of ʿUmar; this was related by Abū Dāwūd al-Sijzī from Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ.

I (the author) say: He was born around the year 65 AH, during the lifetime of Ibn ʿAbbās.

He narrated from Anas ibn Mālik, Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl, Abān ibn ʿUthmān, ʿUrwah, Ibn al-Musayyab, Khārijah ibn Zayd, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah, ʿUbayd ibn Hunayn, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Aʿraj—he transmitted abundantly from the last of these, and his reports from him are sound—as well as from ʿĀʾishah bint Saʿd, Muraqqiʿ ibn Ṣayfī, Mujālid ibn ʿAwf, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah ibn ʿAmr al-Aslamī, al-Shaʿbī, Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and others.

He once attended a funeral together with ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Hāshimī, and he transmitted mursal reports from Ibn ʿUmar. He was counted among the scholars of Islam and among the foremost authorities qualified for independent reasoning.

Those who narrated from him include his son ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, and Ibn Abī Mulaykah, together with