their waiting period (1).

He also heard Tawoos’s ruling about a pilgrim in a state of ihram who had killed some lice; Tawoos said, “Handfuls of food (2).”

Abu ʿAsim al-Nabeel said, “Ibn Jurayj was one of the devoted worshippers: he would fast continually, except for three days each month, and he had a wife who was herself a worshipper.”

Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Hakam said, “I heard al-Shafiʿi say, ‘Ibn Jurayj contracted temporary marriage with ninety women; he would even give himself an enema at night with an ūqiyyah of sesame oil so as to be able to have intercourse.’”

It is related from ʿAbd al-Razzaq who said, “Ibn Jurayj used to dye his hair black and perfume himself with ghaliyah; he was one of the ‘kings’ of the Qur’an-reciters. We once went out with him, and when a beggar approached he handed him a dinar.”

Abu Muhammad Ibn Qutaybah said, “Ibn Jurayj was born in the year 80 AH, the Year of al-Jahhaf (3).”

ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim informed us—Abu al-Yumn al-Kindī informed us—ʿAlī ibn Hibat Allah informed us—Abu Isḥaq al-Fayrūzābādī said, “Among them is Abū al-Walīd ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Jurayj; as for Jurayj, he was a slave belonging to the household of Umm Ḥabīb bint Jubayr.”

He died in the year 150 AH.