Abū Mushir, nor anyone more scrupulously pious than al-Firyābī.

Al-Bukhārī said, “Abū al-Mughīrah died in the year 212 AH (1), and Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal led the funeral prayer over him.”

I say: al-Bukhārī narrated from him, but he and the others only did so through a single intermediary.

59 – Asad ibn al-Furāt, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥarrānī, later al-Maghribī*

The Imām, erudite scholar, judge, commander, and leader of the combatants—Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥarrānī, later known as al-Maghribī.

Birth: Ḥarrān, 144 AH. Ibn Mākulā stated this (2); others said 145.

He entered Qayrawān with his father for jihād; his father, al-Furāt ibn Sinān, was among the notable officers of the army.

Asad transmitted the Muwaṭṭaʾ from Mālik ibn Anas and also narrated from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Abū Yūsuf the judge, and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan.

Opinion-based jurisprudence predominated in his studies, and he compiled the legal teachings of Abū Ḥanīfa.

Among those who transmitted from him was even his own teacher, Abū Yūsuf.

It is also said that his first training in jurisprudence was under the Imām ʿAlī ibn Ziyād al-Tūnusī.