of some dirhams.’ Suddenly a man poured a purse of silver coins into his lap. Abu Turab began handing them out to the people around him. Among them was a destitute fellow who kept catching his eye in the hope of receiving something, but the money was soon finished and nothing reached him. At the end only that poor man, I, and the shaykh remained. The man said, ‘I put myself before you more than once!’
Abu Turab replied, ‘You have not recognised the real Giver.’

Ibn al-Jallāʾ (1) said, ‘I met two thousand shaykhs, yet I never found anyone comparable to Abu Turab—and that is saying something.’

Abu Turab died on the pilgrimage road; he became separated from the caravan and wild beasts consumed his body, in the year 245 AH.

162 – Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Asadī
The Imām, traditionist, and righteous servant of Allah: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Asadī, originally from Kufah and later of Hamadhān. He was also known as Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Malik.

His father transmitted hadith from al-Shaʿbī, and Muḥammad was in turn narrated from by Wakīʿ and Abū Nuʿaym.

It is said that he fasted for sixty years.

Muḥammad himself reported hadith from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿUmar ibn Hārūn, al-Rabīʿ ibn Ziyād, ʿUbaydah ibn Humayd, Sayf ibn Muḥammad al-Thawrī, Abū Muʿāwiyah, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Umawī, Ḥusayn al-Juʿfī, Shabābah, and many others.

Narrators from him include Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Karābīsī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Duḥaymī, ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd al-ʿAskarī, ʿĪsā ibn Yazīd—the imam of the main mosque—and ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan.