He—Abū Shurayḥ—died in Shaʿbān of the year 167 AH. He was in his seventies, belonged to the category of scholars who lived what they knew, and, apart from piety and knowledge, he had no blood relation to Ḥaywah ibn Shurayḥ mentioned earlier.

64 – ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād al-Azdī * (4)

Known as the Shaykh of the Sacred Precinct. His father’s name was Maymūn, although some said it was Ayman ibn Badr, the freedman (mawlā) of the commander al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrah. He was an Azdite from Mecca, one of the devout imams, and he had several brothers.

He narrated from Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh, al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Muzāḥim, ʿIkrimah, Nāfiʿ al-ʿUmarī, and others. He was not prolific in transmitting hadith.

Those who transmitted from him include his own son—the jurist of Mecca ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Abī Rawwād—together with Ḥusayn al-Juʿfī, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Makkī ibn Ibrāhīm, Ibn al-Mubārak, and many others.

Ibn al-Mubārak said, “He was among the most devout of people.”

Yūsuf ibn Asbāṭ recounted, “Ibn Abī Rawwād went forty years without lifting his gaze to the sky. While he was circumambulating the Kaʿbah, the caliph al-Manṣūr jabbed him with his finger; he turned and said, ‘I knew it was the jab of a tyrant.’”