stating that he, too, was hard-pressed for funds on that very ʿĪd, so he forwarded to him the self-same purse.

The first man was now left with nothing. By chance he wrote to a third friend, explaining his situation, whereupon that friend sent him the purse with its seal still unbroken.

He recognised it at once, mounted his beast and went to him, saying, “Tell me, what is the story behind this purse?” The man recounted the matter, so the two of them rode together to the one who had dispatched it, set out the whole affair, opened the purse, and divided its contents among themselves.

Ibn al-Bahlul said, “The three were: Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah, Abū Ḥassān al-Ziyādī, and a third whose name I have forgotten.” Its chain of transmission is sound.

It was said that al-Ziyādī lived eighty-nine years and died in the month of Rajab, in the year 242 AH.

In that same year there also died: Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī, Ibn Dhakwān the Qurʾān-reciter, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥulwānī, Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā the scribe of al-ʿUmarī, Muḥammad ibn Aslam al-Tūsī, Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ al-Tujībī, Yaḥyā ibn Aktham the judge, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmmār al-Mawṣilī, and Abū Salamah Yaḥyā ibn Khalaf.

135 – Muḥammad ibn Rumḥ ibn al-Muhājir al-Tujībī, their freedman (M, Q)
A ḥāfiẓ, utterly reliable, an eminent scholar; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Tujībī, their freedman, from Egypt.

Born: after 150 AH.

He heard from: al-Layth ibn Saʿd, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lahīʿah, and Maslamah ibn ʿAlī