all the disciplines of knowledge—reliable, trustworthy, and an upholder of the Sunnah. Those who received the Qur’anic readings from him were his copyist, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim, together with Ahmad ibn Yusuf, ʿAli ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz, Naṣr ibn Dawud, and Thabit ibn Abi Thabit (1).
Al-Bukhari and others said: He died in 224 AH, in Mecca (2).
Al-Khatib added: I have been informed that he lived to the age of sixty-seven—may Allah have mercy on him (3).
No narration of Abu ʿUbayd appears in the Six Books, but Abu Dawud does cite him concerning the terminology of camel dentition in the laws of zakat (4), and al-Bukhari likewise quotes him in his book “Actions of the Servants.”
Abu Bakr Maḥfuz ibn Maʿtūq al-Bazzar related to us in 692 AH; ʿAbd al-Laṭif ibn Muhammad informed us—(ḥ).
And Ahmad ibn Isḥaq al-Gharrafi (5) narrated to us; ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Bāqā (6) informed us; they both said:
Abu Zurʿa Ṭahir ibn Muhammad told us; Muhammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Maqawwimī, in person, informed us; al-Zubayr ibn Muhammad al-Asadi narrated to us; ʿAli ibn Muhammad ibn Maharoyah al-Qazwini related to us; ʿAli ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz informed us; Abu ʿUbayd narrated to us; Hushaym narrated to us; Manṣur narrated from Ibn Sirin, from Ibn ʿUmar—
from ʿUmar, who prostrated twice during the pilgrimage and said: “This surah…"