I add: Narrations from him are found in all six canonical collections.
Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Dirafs said: I heard him remark, “Work for Allah; it will profit you more than working for yourself.”
He also said: “The sign of loving Allah is to keep watch for the Beloved and to strive for His good pleasure.”
And he said: “Whoever claims intimate knowledge while his hand grazes the bowls of the affluent is a liar; the one who dips his hand into another man’s dish lowers himself before him.”
From him as well: “Fear Allah with a hidden reverence that even your own soul does not detect, lest you unleash a blight upon your heart.”
Abū Zurʿah stated: I attended the funeral of Muḥammad ibn al-Mubārak in Shawwāl, 215 AH. Abū Mus-hir led the funeral prayer for him at the Jābiyah Gate and kept praising him ⦗1⦘.
Al-Kalābādhī said: Al-Bukhārī, in the Book of Jihād, transmitted from him through Isḥāq.
Ibn Maʿīn said: He had mastery of the chain of transmission.
108 – Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways ʿAbd Allah al-Asbaḥī * (al-Bukhārī, Muslim)
Son of ʿAbd Allah ibn Uways ibn Mālik ibn Abī ʿĀmir, the imam, the ḥāfiẓ,