from his grandfather?” He replied, “Yes; he told me that he had heard his grandfather, Abū Salām, … and he reported the narration as a companion-statement (1).

61 – Zaynab bint al-Amīr Sulaymān, the paternal uncle of al-Manṣūr, an Abbasid — she is the ancestress to whom the Zaynabiyyūn trace their lineage.

She was a young child with her family in al-Ḥumaymah (2), then grew up amid prosperity and lived to see a succession of caliphs: first her cousin al-Saffāḥ, followed by al-Manṣūr, al-Mahdī, al-Hādī, Hārūn al-Rashīd, al-Amīn, and finally al-Maʾmūn. Her life was long, and both her father and her two brothers, Muḥammad and Jaʿfar, held positions of authority.

She transmitted ḥadith from her father.

Among those who narrated from her were her son ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm the Imām, ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī, Aḥmad ibn al-Khalīl ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Qurashī, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Mūsā al-ʿAbbāsī, and the caliph al-Maʾmūn, who used to honour and revere her.

She remained alive until a year in the mid-210s AH.

It is also said that she lived beyond the reign of al-Maʾmūn and reached extreme old age; Faṭirād al-Zaynabī (3) and his relatives from the progeny of her son ʿAbd Allāh are among her descendants.