—a mere forearm’s length—while he would regularly make the rounds between al-Walīd and Ḍamrah.¹
ʿUmar ibn Sahl al-Dīnawarī said, “I heard Ibn Wahb al-Dīnawarī relate:
‘I coached Abū ʿUmayr ibn al-Naḥḥās on forty hadith from his own narrations. When I reached the forty-first (2) he protested, “Have you no shame? Are you embarrassed to have me bear witness to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in a single sitting more than forty times?!”’
Ibn Zabr said: He passed away on the eighth of Muḥarram in the year 256 AH.
I read to Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abarqūhī, who informed us, and Akmal ibn Abī al-Azhar al-Ḥasanī informed us in the year 620 AH; he said: Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Bannāʾ informed us; Abū Naṣr al-Zaynabī informed us; Abū Bakr ibn Zanbūr narrated to us; ʿAbdullāh ibn Abī Dāwūd narrated to us; ʿĪsā ibn Muḥammad al-Ramlī narrated to us; Ḍamrah narrated to us, from Ibn Shawdhab, from Qatādah, from Jābir ibn Zayd regarding the verse: “And We do not send the signs except as a warning” (al-Isrāʾ 59). He said, “Death is one of those signs.”³
In that same year there also died: al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār, the judge of Mecca; al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān al-Jīzī; ʿAlī ibn al-Mundhir al-Ṭarīqī (4); Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī; Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Karāmah; the caliph al-Muhtadī billāh, Muḥammad ibn al-Wāthiq; ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad al-Mukharramī al-Zuhrī; and ʿAbdullāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Shabbawayh."}