Ahmad ibn Hibah Allah informed us—through Abu Ruh—who said: Tamim the Tutor informed us; Abu Saʿd the Litterateur informed us; Abu ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān informed us; Abu Yaʿla informed us; Ibrahim ibn al-Hajjaj narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn Ziyad narrated to us; ʿAsim al-Aḥwal narrated to us, from ʿAbd Allah—namely, Ibn Sarjis—who said:
“I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and ate with him bread and meat—or, he said, tharīd (broth-soaked bread). I then said, ‘May Allah forgive you, O Messenger of Allah.’ He replied, ‘And you as well.’ I asked him, ‘Did the Messenger of Allah seek forgiveness for you?’ He answered, ‘Yes, and for you,’ and he recited: ‘So seek forgiveness for your sin and for the believing men and believing women’ (1) [Muḥammad 47:19].
- Jarir ibn ʿAbd al-Hamid ibn Yazid al-Dabbi * (ʿ)
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, and judge, Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Dabbi, originally from Kufa.
He settled in al-Rayy, where he spread knowledge.
It is also said that he was born in the districts of Isfahan and reared in Kufa.
Muhammad ibn Humayd reported from Jarir: “I was born the year al-Hasan died, the year ten (2).”
(1) Its chain of transmission is sound. Muslim also recorded the hadith (no. 2346) in “The Virtues – Chapter: Affirming the Seal of Prophethood,” through several isnads, all on the authority of Asim al-Ahwal from Abd Allah ibn Sarjis. Ahmad includes it in his Musnad (5/82) through the isnad of Shuʿbah from Asim.
*For further biographical data, see:* Ibn Maʿin, Tarikh, p. 81; Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat 7/381; Khalifah, Tabaqat, nos. 1300 and 3167; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir 2/214; al-Uqayli, al-Duʿafaʾ, fol. 71; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 2/505; al-Khatib, Tarikh Baghdad 7/253; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 192; al-Dhahabi, Tazhib al-Tahdhib 1/105/2; al-ʿIbar 1/299; Mizan al-Iʿtidal 1/394; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 1/271; al-Kashif 1/182; Duwal al-Islam 1/119; Ibn al-Jazari, Tabaqat al-Qurraʾ 1/190; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 2/75; Muqaddimat Fath al-Bari, p. 392; Ibn Taghribirdi, al-Nujum al-Zahira 2/127; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 116; Khulasat Tazhib al-Kamal, p. 61.
(2) In other words, “and one hundred,” for the author states at the end of this entry that he died in the year 188 A.H. (one hundred and eighty-eight).