Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah said: “Al-ʿAyshī spent four hundred thousand dinars on his brothers for the sake of Allah, until he had to sell the very roof over his head.” (1)

Ibrāhīm Nifṭawayh reported: “It was said that al-ʿAyshī could hold one sheep in his right hand and another in his left until both were skinned.”

Nifṭawayh further remarked: “He was one of the foremost men of his age—renowned for his generosity, prodigious memory, and engaging conversation.”

Al-Baghawī said: “He died in the month of Ramaḍān in the year 228 AH.” (2)

196 – Al-Naḍr ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Naḍīr al-Murādī * (D, S, Q)

An imam, an exemplar, a devoted worshipper, and a ḥāfiẓ (hadith master). Abū al-Aswad al-Murādī, their client; a Basran; a scribe; a shurṭī; and the court clerk for the chief judge of Egypt, Luhayʿah ibn ʿĪsā ibn Luhayʿah.

He transmitted from Ibn Luhayʿah—specifically the latter’s written works—al-Layth ibn Saʿd, Nāfiʿ ibn Yazīd, Bakr ibn Muḍar, Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍālah, and several others.

Those who narrated from him include Abū ʿUbayd, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ, al-Rabīʿ al-Jīzī, Abū Bakr al-Ṣāghānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf, Abū Ḥātim, Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, al-Miqdām ibn Dāwūd, Yaḥyā ibn ʿUthmān al-Sahmī, and many others besides.

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said: “A reliable shaykh; he was the principal transmitter of Ibn Luhayʿah’s material.” (3)