is superior to fasting, and the like. Indeed, two Muslims may both fast a single day, or both perform two units of voluntary prayer, yet the difference in the multiplication of their reward is known only to Allah, according to the qualities that attend each act.
Al-Bukhārī said: Suwayd died on the Day of Eid al-Fiṭr in the year 240 AH, at al-Ḥadītha. (1)
Al-Baghawī added: He lived to the age of one hundred.
98 – Hishām ibn ʿAmmār ibn Nuṣayr ibn Maysarah ibn Abān (Kh, 4)
An imam, ḥāfiẓ, erudite scholar, and renowned Qur’an reader; the leading scholar of Syria. He was known as Abū al-Walīd al-Sulamī—some say al-Ẓafarī—and he served as the preacher of Damascus.
Al-Bāghandī transmitted from him and relates that Hishām said, “I was born in 153 AH.”
He heard ḥadith from: Mālik—about whom an incident occurred with him—Muslim al-Zanjī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Rijāl, Muʿāwiyah ibn Yaḥyā al-Uṭrābulusī, Maʿrūf Abū al-Khaṭṭāb (the companion of Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ), Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, Hiql ibn Ziyād, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Saʿd ibn ʿAmmār al-Quraẓī, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, Radiḥ ibn ʿAṭiyyah, Rifdah ibn Quḍāʿah, al-Jarrāḥ ibn Malīḥ al-Bahrānī, and al-Bakhtarī ibn ʿUbayd.