of that, and he would censure the rulers, yet he did not deem armed rebellion against them permissible at all.

He sometimes used tadlīs (disguised transmission) in his narrations and might on occasion conceal a weak transmitter.

Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah was likewise known for tadlīs, but no instance is recorded of his doing so from a weak narrator.

Aḥmad said: Mūsā ibn Dāwūd narrated to us, “I heard Sufyān say in the year 158 AH, ‘I am sixty-one years old.’”

Wakīʿ stated: “Sufyān was born in 98 AH and died at the age of sixty-three.”

Sufyān ibn Wakīʿ reported: “My father told us that Sufyān died possessing one hundred dinars as trading capital. He appointed ʿAmmār ibn Sayf as executor over his notebooks, but ʿAmmār burned them. Sufyān left no descendants; he had a son who predeceased him, so he bequeathed everything to his sister and her children, leaving nothing to his brother al-Mubārak.”

Al-Mubārak passed away in 180 AH.

Ibn Maʿīn said: “I have been informed that Sharīk, al-Thawrī, Isrāʾīl, Fudayl ibn ʿIyāḍ, and others among the jurists of Kufa were born in Khurasan. Their fathers had been sent out with the expeditions; some took concubines, others married women, and when the army returned they brought the children back to Kufa. Masrūq, al-Thawrī’s grandfather, fought on ʿAlī’s side at the Battle of the Camel (1).”

Abū al-ʿAynāʾ, transmitting from ʿAbd Allah ibn Khubayq, said that Yūsuf ibn Asbaṭ reported: “Whenever Sufyān began to speak about the Hereafter, he would urinate blood.”

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī said: “I heard Sufyān say, ‘No report has ever reached me from the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, without my acting on it at least once.’”

Hātim ibn al-Walīd al-Karmānī said: “I heard Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bukayr relate: It was said …”