two rags: a lower wrap and a cloak that bore many patches. Whenever he wished to clear his nose he would leave the mosque, and their mosque was covered with pebbles. Someone said to him, “Is its expiation not simply to bury it?” He would reply, “I might be taken (by death) before I manage to do the expiation.”

He married a woman and fixed her bridal gift at three dinars. His nightly fare consisted of two small loaves, with—bought for a single fals—either a radish or some endive.

Abū Ḥamdūn al-Ṭayyib, the Qur’an-reciter, said: “We buried Abū Dāwūd al-Ḥafarī—may Allah have mercy on him—and left his door open; there was nothing at all in the house.” (1)

Ibn Saʿd and others said: “He died in Jumādā I of the year 203 AH.” (2)

I (the author) say: He died when he was already old—I reckon in his seventies—and his hadiths are readily available to us.

146 – Bishr ibn ʿUmar, Abū Muḥammad al-Zahrānī * (ʿ)
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and absolutely reliable authority; Abū Muḥammad al-Zahrānī of Basra.
He heard hadith from ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār, Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj, ʿĀṣim ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUmarī, Hammām ibn Yaḥyā, Abān ibn Yazīd, and others.