Abi Hamzah?’ He replied, ‘Warqaʾ.’ (1)
Abu Hatim added, ‘His ḥadiths are sound.’
Yahya ibn Abi Talib narrated: Abu al-Mundhir Ismaʿil ibn ʿUmar informed us, saying, ‘We visited Warqaʾ ibn ʿUmar while he was on his death-bed. He kept proclaiming the tahlil and the takbir, remembering Allah, and he said to his son, “My boy, handle the returning of greetings to these people for me, so they do not distract me from my Lord (2).”’
Our teacher did not record the year of his death (3).
158 – Dawud al-Taʾi, Abu Sulayman ibn Nusair * (S)
The imam, jurist, exemplar, and ascetic; a member of the Tayy tribe, from Kufah, counted among the saints.
Born: several years after 100 AH.
He transmitted from: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, Humayd al-Tawil, and Hisham ibn ʿUrwah,
(1) Al-Jarh wa al-Taʿdil, 9:51. The wording is: “I asked Abu Zurʿa: whom do you prefer—Waraqāʾ, al-Mughira ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman, Shuʿayb ibn Abi Hamza, or ʿAbd al-Rahman?”
(2) The report is found in: Tarikh Baghdad, 13:518; al-Tadhkira, 1:230; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 11:115.
(3) I.e. the hadith master Abu al-Hajjaj al-Mizzi, author of Tahdhib al-Kamal. The same author notes in Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 1:231, that al-Mizzi died in the early 160s AH.
(*) Further biographical notices appear in: Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 6:367; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 3:240; al-Tarikh al-Saghir, 2:136-137; Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿarif, 515; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlamaʾ al-Amsar, 168-169; Abu Nuʿaym, Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ, 7:335-367; al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, 8:347-355; Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, 6:50; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Aʿyan, 2:259-263; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, MS, 394-395; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, MS, 1:208-210; al-Dhahabi, ʿIbar, 1:238; al-Subki, Tabaqat al-Awliyaʾ, 200-203; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 3:203; Khulasat Tahdhib al-Kamal, 111; Ibn ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 1:256.