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Al-Aḥmar once said, “In a single day three hundred thousand dirhams reached me.” He was wealthy and fastidious, splendidly attired; his house resembled a royal palace, complete with servants and retainers.
His pupils included Isḥāq al-Nadīm and Salamah ibn ʿĀṣim, and it is said that Muḥammad ibn al-Jahm also caught up with him. They relate that, while still a young man serving among the guards at the gate of the caliphal court, he burned with intelligence. Noticing al-Kisāʾī’s comings and goings, he attached himself to him until he excelled, after which al-Kisāʾī appointed him, in his own stead, to teach Hārūn al-Rashīd’s sons.
Al-Aḥmar died on the road to Mecca, and al-Farrāʾ was deeply grieved by his death. It is said that he passed away in 194 AH.
31 – Manṣūr ibn ʿAmmār ibn Kathīr, Abū al-Sarī al-Sulamī*
The preacher, the eloquent, the upright, the devout—Abū al-Sarī al-Sulamī, the Khurasānī (some say the Basran)—was unmatched in exhortation and admonition.
He transmitted from: al-Layth, Ibn Luhayʿah, Maʿrūf al-Khayyāṭ, and Hiql ibn Ziyād,