Muslim said:
“I asked Mālik, ‘I have been informed that ʿĀʾishah—may Allah be pleased with her—stated: A woman does not remain pregnant for more than two years, a span no longer than the shadow cast by a spindle.’
He replied, ‘Who says that? Ibn ʿAjlān’s wife is our neighbour, a truthful woman. She bore three children over twelve years, carrying each of them for four years before giving birth.’

Saʿīd ibn Dāwūd al-Zanbarī ⦗1⦘ related to me: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān said, ‘I myself was born after four full years, during my father’s lifetime.’

Al-Wāqidī said: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān say, ‘My father remained in the womb for more than three years.’

Al-Wāqidī also said: I heard Mālik remark, ‘Pregnancy may last two years or even longer. I know someone who was carried that long’—meaning himself.

Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī transmitted—from an informant—on the authority of Ibn al-Mubārak, who said, ‘In Medina no one more closely resembled the true scholars than Ibn ʿAjlān; among the learned I used to liken him to a ruby.’

Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī said: ‘Ibn ʿAjlān held a distinguished rank and virtue in Medina. He was among those who marched out with Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh. Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān intended to cut off his hand, but when he heard an uproar—while the senior figures were present—he asked, “What is that noise?” They answered, “It is the clamour of the people of Medina praying for Ibn ʿAjlān. If only you would pardon him! He was merely deceived and erred in narration, thinking the man to be the Mahdī.” So he released him and forgave him.’

Abū Bakr ibn Khallād said: I heard Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd say, ‘Ibn ʿAjlān’s reports from Nāfiʿ are inconsistent.’

Al-Fallās said: I asked Yaḥyā about Ibn ʿAjlān’s narration from al-Maqburī, from