a full load of wormwood. From it I picked up a single twig; I cannot tell whether I used it to clean my teeth or merely cast it aside—yet I have been called to account for that one twig for a whole year. (1)
Saʿid ibn Hamdun, al-Sulami, and Abū Yaʿqūb al-Qarrāb state that Abū Sulaymān died in 215 AH. Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī, however, puts his death in 205 AH. (2)
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35 – Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī the Elder * (Q)
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sulaymān ibn Abī al-Jawn al-ʿAnsī, of Damascus; a hadith transmitter and itinerant scholar.
He narrated from: Layth, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, Ibn Abī Khālid, al-Aʿmash, and ʿAmr ibn Sharāḥīl al-Dārānī.
Among those who narrated from him were: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh—one of his contemporaries—Muḥammad ibn ʿĀʾidh, Abū Tawbah al-Ḥalabī, Ṣafwān ibn Ṣāliḥ, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, and others.
Duhaym declared him trustworthy. (3)