he added, “What he actually said was: ‘so we neither succeeded nor prospered.’” (1)
Wahb ibn Jarir, on the authority of his father, said:
“I sat with al-Hasan for seven years, missing not a single day. I used to fast and then go to him, and I never once saw Hisham in his company.”
I (the author) comment: Hisham has already crossed the bridge; his reliability has been firmly established, and the compilers of the sound collections relied on him. The few slips he made are drowned in the vast amount of material he transmitted. There is no doubt that Yunus and Ibn Awn enjoy better retention and greater precision than he does, just as he is more accurate than Ibn Ishaq and Muhammad ibn Amr.
Abu Nuʿaym, Ibn Maʿin, and Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah said: He died in 146 AH.
Yahya al-Qattan and Ibn Bukayr said: He died in 147 AH.
Makki ibn Ibrahim and Abu ʿIsa al-Tirmidhi said: He died on the first day of Safar, 148 AH, and this is the soundest opinion.
ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim informed us, through Abu al-Yumn al-Kindī; and Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Salam al-Tamīmī, al-Khidr ibn Hammūyah, and a number of others wrote to me, saying:
ʿUmar ibn Tabarzad narrated to us, as did al-Muʾammal ibn Muhammad and a group, who said:
al-Kindī narrated to us, and al-Miqdad ibn Hibat Allah; ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn al-Akhdar narrated to us, and Yahya ibn Abi Mansur; ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Minina and Zayd ibn al-Hasan al-Lughawi—the four of them said:
Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Baqi al-Ansari narrated to us; Ibrāhim ibn ʿUmar the jurist transmitted to us in person,