He said: I once heard ʿAlī—who was among the most eloquent of people—remark:
“A party (1) from Banū Hilāl came to visit us. A small boy came out and said, ‘Father! So-and-so pushed me into the ḥawmah of the water.’
I asked, ‘My dear son, what is the ḥawmah of the water?’
He replied, ‘Its buʿthuṭ.’
I said, ‘And what is its buʿthuṭ?’
He answered, ‘The majammah of the water.’
I asked, ‘And what is the majammah of the water?’
He then uttered a word which I failed to recall.”

Ibn Ṭāhir (2) once summoned ʿAlī ibn ʿAththām to attend his gathering. ʿAlī refused, and Ibn Ṭāhir excused him. Shortly thereafter, ʿAlī left Nishapur in the year (225) AH; he performed the pilgrimage, travelled on to Tarsus, settled there, and died there in (228) AH—may Allah have mercy on him.

199 – Abū Naṣr al-Tammār, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz * (M, S)
Son of ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Dhakwān ibn Yazīd.
It is also said that his grandfather was al-Ḥārith, the father of Bishr ibn al-Ḥārith al-Ḥāfī. He was an imam, reliable, ascetic, and an exemplar; a client of the Qushayri clan, from Nasā, known as al-Daqīqī, nicknamed al-Tammār, and a resident of Baghdad.
He was born the year Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī was killed (3).
He set out in search of knowledge after 160 AH.
He studied under: Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Tanūkhī, and Ḥammād.