he had opened barely an hour earlier, and my sword snapped from sheer dread! (1)
I add: His caliphate lasted five and a half years. He died in Sāmarrāʾ with six days remaining of Dhul-Ḥijjah, in the year 232 AH, and after his death allegiance was given to his brother al-Mutawakkil. (2)
75 – Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm Abū ʿAmr al-Azdī (ʿA)
He was an Imām, ḥāfiẓ, trustworthy, and the chief transmitter of Basra—Abū ʿAmr al-Azdī, the Farāhīdī, their client, a Basran by residence and a butcher by trade.
He was born around 130 AH.
He transmitted a few narrations from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAwn, and also from Qurrah ibn Khālid, Mālik ibn Mighwal, Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah, Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī, Ismāʿīl ibn Muslim al-ʿAbdī, and Abū (3) al-Ghusn Dujayn al-Yarbūʿī; as well as Abū Khaldah Khālid ibn Dīnār, Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Hammām, Abān, Salām ibn Miskīn, Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Muthannā, al-Aswad ibn Shaybān, Muḥammad ibn Faḍāʾ, al-Mustamir ibn ar-Rayyān, Wuhaib, al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Hudhdānī, Mubārak ibn Faḍālah, and many others besides them.