With this same chain I heard Yaḥyā ibn Ādam say: “A mile is three thousand six hundred cubits, and may reach four thousand. A farsakh is three miles, and a barīd is twelve miles.”
Hishām ibn Manṣūr said: I heard Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal say: “Yaḥyā ibn Ādam told me: ‘A man I dislike—whose visit I dread—sometimes comes to me, so I read to him everything he has in one sitting just to be rid of him and never see him again. Another man whom I love may come, and I keep sending him away so that he will return to me over and over.’ ”
205 – Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh* (ʿ)
He is Muḥammad ibn al-Zubayr ibn ʿUmar ibn Dirham, the distinguished ḥāfiẓ, a meticulous authority, known as Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī, from Kūfa, a client of Banū Asad.
He reported from: Mālik ibn Mighwal; Fiṭr ibn Khalīfa; ʿĪsā ibn Ṭahmān—the companion of Anas; ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Ḥusayn; Misʿar; Saʿd ibn Aws al-ʿAbsī; Ayman ibn Nābil; Rabbāḥ ibn Abī Maʿrūf; Ḥamzah ibn Ḥabīb; al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jumayʿ; Sufyān; Shaybān the grammarian; Saʿīd ibn Ḥassān al-Makhzūmī; Yūnus ibn Abī Isḥāq, and a host of others.
Narrated from him: his son Ṭāhir, Aḥmad, al-Qawārīrī, and Abū Bakr ibn Abī—