and Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Munādī, together with a great many others.
He was unanimously regarded as a decisive authority, his footing in piety immovable. It was said that for twenty years he never lifted his gaze to the sky—may Allah have mercy on him—and he was counted among the people most knowledgeable about Sharīk.
They report that he died in the year 195 AH.
From Sharīk alone he transmitted six thousand hadiths.
Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad informed us; Hibat Allāh ibn Hilāl informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī al-Daqqāq informed us in 484 AH; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Muʿaddal informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Razzāz informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh narrated to us; Isḥāq ibn al-Azraq narrated to us; Zakariyyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah narrated to us, from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, from Nāfiʿ ibn Jubayr, from his father:
The Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—said, “There is no (new) pact of alliance in Islam; and any pact that existed in the pre-Islamic era, Islam has only rendered it stronger.” (1)