his bed, and when I woke up he was standing there fanning me.

Hammād ibn Zayd transmitted from Ibn ʿAwn, who said:
“I stayed with al-Ḥasan and Muḥammad, and both of them remained standing on their feet until a place was prepared for me to lie down.”

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī said: “I heard ʿUthmān al-Battī comment on a son’s testimony in favor of his father: ‘It is not valid—unless the son is like Ibn ʿAwn.’”

Al-Anṣārī added: “And that is the view I follow. I once gave testimony on behalf of my father before Sawwār ibn ʿAbd Allāh, and he accepted it.”

Abū ʿUbayd reported from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, who said, “There was no one in Iraq more knowledgeable of the Sunnah than Ibn ʿAwn.”

I say: In his time Ibn ʿAwn was without equal in asceticism and righteousness.

As for his namesake:

157 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAwn al-Hilālī (M, S)

The son of the governor, the deputy of Egypt, Abū ʿAwn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Yazīd. He was an imam, a hadith scholar, an ascetic, a devoted worshipper, and a blessing of his age. His kunya was Abū Muḥammad al-Hilālī; he was also known as al-Baghdādī, al-Adamī, and al-Kharrāz. He was the brother of Muḥriz ibn ʿAwn and was born during the caliphate of al-Manṣūr.

He studied under Mālik, Sharīk, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Mājashūn, Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Ḥāzim, ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd, and many others.