“By Allah, I yearn for the sorcery of your eyes, yet I fear the fates that overtake lovers. (1)

He also said:

‘Do you know of any station beyond love that would bring me nearer to you? For love itself has driven me far away.’ (2)

I say: He was accused of zandaqa (heresy), so the caliph al-Mahdī had him whipped seventy lashes in order to force a confession, and he died from the flogging.
It was further said that he preferred the Fire and took the side of Iblīs.

He died in 167 AH, having reached the age of ninety.

9 – Abū al-Ghuṣn Thābit ibn Qays al-Ghifārī, their client* (D, S)

He was the shaykh, the scholar, the truthful, the long-lived—the last of the elder teachers—Abū al-Ghuṣn Thābit ibn Qays al-Ghifārī, their client, from Medina.

He is counted among the younger Tābiʿīs.

He related hadith from Anas ibn Mālik, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, Nāfiʿ ibn Jubayr, Khārija ibn Zayd the jurist, Abū Saʿīd Kaysān al-Maqburī, and other early authorities.

He also saw Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, as Abū Ḥātim attested.

Among those who transmitted from him are Maʿn ibn ʿĪsā, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, Bishr ibn ʿUmar al-Zahrānī, al-Qaʿnabī, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways, and a group besides.

Whoever claimed that he was Juḥā—the man famed for those anecdotes—was in error.

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and al-Nasāʾī said: “There is no harm in him.”
Ibn Maʿīn also said, in the report of ʿAbbās: “He is acceptable, though his hadith is not of the highest quality.”

And Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythama narrated from—