Abū Ḥafṣ al-Fallās said, “He passed away on Friday, the nineteenth of Ramadan.”

ʿĀrim said, “He died when ten nights of Ramadan had elapsed, on a Friday.”

Abū Dāwūd said, “Mālik died two months and a few days before him.”

I say: This is a mistake; rather, he died six months before him—may Allah have mercy on them both—for they were the two pillars of the religion, and no one like them was left behind.

In that same year there also died, at Wāsiṭ, the ḥāfiẓ, authoritative proof, and devout exemplar Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Taḥḥān; the hadith scholar of Kūfa, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ Sallām ibn Sulaym; the mufti of Damascus, al-Hikl ibn Ziyād, a companion of al-Awzāʿī; and the hadith scholar of Ḥimṣ, ʿAbd Allah ibn Sālim al-Ashʿarī.

That year likewise witnessed the death of the Khārijite leader whose bravery became proverbial: al-Walīd ibn Ṭarīf al-Shārī.⦗1⦘

Among Ḥammād’s elevated chains of transmission—which I have collected separately—are these: ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān and Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad related to us, saying: Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir informed us; Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Bannāʾ informed us; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhalliṣ narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn