107 – ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd * (M, 4; Kh, maqrūnan)
The Imām, scholar, and ḥadith expert Abū Muḥammad al-Juhanī—their client—was a Medinan known as al-Darāwardī.
It was said that he came from Darāward, a village in Khurasan.
Sulaymān al-Ṭabarānī narrated—from Aḥmad ibn Rishdīn—from Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ—who said: “Al-Darāwardī was originally from Isfahan and later settled in Medina.”
Whenever someone sought permission to enter, he would ask, “andarūn?⦗1⦘” and so he was nicknamed al-Darāwardī.
I say: He transmitted ḥadith from Safwān ibn Sulaym, Abū Ṭuwālah ʿAbd Allāh, Yazīd ibn al-Hād, Abū Ḥāzim al-Aʿraj, Thawr ibn Zayd, al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAmr ibn Abī ʿAmr, Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, Sharīk ibn Abī Namir, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, and others.
Those who narrated from him include Shuʿbah and al-Thawrī—both older than he—and Isḥāq ibn Rāhawyah,
= And after the opening couplet:
He goes forth at dawn, and death goes forth upon the tips of his spears,
like wide roads that dare mankind with its appointed end.
When a faction grows insolent after a spell of obedience,
death musters against it among gleaming swords and lances.
He has so accustomed the birds to carnage that they trust in it:
they trail him on every march.
You see him, even in times of peace, clad in double mail;
he never trusts the turns of fate, lest he be summoned unawares.
His far-reaching ambition is to break fetters
and to capture the reckless aggressor.
No perfume scents his cheeks or the parting of his hair;
nor does he darken his eyes with kohl.
(*) Ibn Maʿin, Tarikh, p. 367; Khalifah, Tabaqat, p. 276; al-Bukhari, Al-Tarikh al-Kabir 6:25; Al-Tarikh al-Saghir 2:236; al-ʿUqayli, Al-Duʿafaʾ, p. 245; Ibn Abi Hatim, Al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 5:395; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlamaʾ al-Amsar, no. 1120, p. 142; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 844; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 2:243/2; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 1:269; Mizān al-Iʿtidal 2:633; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 6:353; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 241; Shadharāt al-Dhahab 1:316.
(1) andarun: a Persian word meaning “inside, interior,” specifically an inner room attached to the house.