Al-Ṣūfī said, “He died with seven days remaining in the month of Ramadan, in the year 231 AH.”
ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Khalaf, the ḥāfiẓ, related to us; Yahyā ibn Abī al-Suʿūd al-Yarbūʿī informed us:
Fakhr al-Nisāʾ Shuhdah (1) told us; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Niʿālī told us; Abū ʿUmar al-Fārisī told us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah told us; my grandfather narrated to us; Khalaf ibn Sālim narrated to us; Wahb ibn Jarīr narrated to us; Juwayriyyah narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, from his uncle, who said:
“When the day arrived on which ʿAmmār was slain, a large man suddenly came forward between the two battle-lines, mounted on an enormous steed, and cried out in a voice that pierced the heart: ‘Make for Paradise, servants of Allah!’—he repeated it three times—‘Paradise lies beneath the shade of the swords!’ The people surged ahead, and lo, it was ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir himself, and before long he was killed.”
57 – Jabārah ibn al-Mughallith, Abū Muḥammad al-Hammānī * (Q)
A long-lived shaykh and ḥadith transmitter, Abū Muḥammad al-Hammānī, of Kūfah.
He narrated from Shabīb ibn Shaybah, Abū Bakr al-Nahshalī, Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ, ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Abī al-Masāwir, Abū Shaybah al-ʿAbsī Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān, Abū ʿAwānah, and other senior authorities.