his head; then he raised it again, uttered the words, “To Allah we belong and to Him we shall return,” and tears coursed down his cheeks. He then recited:
If you live on, you will mourn every one of those you love;
Yet the loss of your own self—may you be bereft of your father—is the graver grief. (1)

Ishaq continued, “We never heard him recite poetry except when it came in the course of a hadith.”

I say: Al-Darimi was a pillar of the religion. Abu Hatim al-Razi (2) and the scholars at large declared him trustworthy; Bundar and the senior authorities transmitted from him; and we have received from Ahmad ibn Hanbal that, when he mentioned al-Darimi, he said, “The world was offered to him, but he would not take it.”

Rajaʾ ibn Murajjaʾ said, “I saw Sulayman al-Shadhakuni and Ishaq ibn Rahawayh—and he named a number of others—but I never saw anyone with a better memory than ʿAbd Allah al-Darimi.” (3)

Among the hadith he transmitted is the following chain: ʿUmar ibn Muhammad al-Fārisi, al-Hasan ibn ʿAli, Hadiyya bint ʿAli ibn ʿAskar, a group of others, and Ibn al-Hububi reported to us, saying: ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar al-Harimi informed us; ʿAbd al-Awwal ibn ʿIsa informed us; ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad informed us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Ḥammuyah informed us; ʿIsa ibn ʿUmar ibn al-ʿAbbas narrated to us; ʿAbd Allah al-Darimi narrated to us; Yahya ibn Hassan narrated to us; Sulayman ibn Bilal narrated to us, from Hisham ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿAʾishah:

The Prophet ﷺ said, “What an excellent condiment vinegar is.” (4)