15 – Marwān ibn Muʿāwiya ibn al-Ḥārith al-Fazārī (ʿ),
son of ʿUthmān ibn Asmāʾ ibn Khārija ibn Ḥiṣn ibn Ḥudhayfa ibn Badr; a leading scholar, ḥadīth master, and reliable authority. He was Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Fazārī, originally from Kūfah and later settled in Damascus.
Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq related to us; Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ, al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, and Abū Ḥafṣ al-Ṭāʾī likewise reported to us from Abū al-Yumān al-Kindī; they said:
Abū al-Faḍl al-Urmawī informed us, and Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh reported from ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad; Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb the ascetic also narrated to us; they both said:
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzār informed us; ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Sukkarī reported to us; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār said: Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn narrated to us in the year 227 AH; he said: Marwān ibn Muʿāwiya told us, saying: Hilāl ibn Suwayd al-Aḥmarī narrated to us:
“I heard Anas mention that the Prophet ﷺ was presented with three birds. He gave one bird to his servant to eat, but the next morning the servant brought it back. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Did I not forbid you to store anything away for tomorrow? For Allah, exalted is He, brings the provision of every tomorrow.’”(1)
This ḥadīth is singular (gharīb). Hilāl is weak; it is said that he is the same as Abū Ẓilāl.
Marwān was a cousin of the Imām Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī, and his notice ought to have been attached to Abū Isḥāq’s, for they belong to the same generation.