Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣayrafī said, “I asked al-Zubayr, ‘How many years has your wife been with you?’

He replied, ‘Do not ask me! On the Day of Resurrection no flock of rams will be larger than those offered on her account; I have sacrificed seventy rams for her.’ (1)

Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb said, “Al-Zubayr was reliable, firmly grounded, and versed in genealogy and the reports of the ancients. He authored a work entitled (Nasab Quraysh — The Genealogy of Quraysh). (2)

I say: The book has reached us through the elevated chain of transmission of al-Fakhr ʿAlī from Ibn Ṭabarzad.

Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Sulaymānī, the ḥāfiẓ, said, ‘His ḥadiths are objectionable.’

So he claimed, though he had no idea what he was saying. (3)

Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Ṭūsī said, ‘Al-Zubayr died with nine days remaining of Dhū al-Qaʿdah in the year 256 AH, in Mecca.

He had reached eighty-four years of age, and his son Muṣʿab led the funeral prayer for him three days after we had completed the recitation of his book (al-Nasab) to him.

The cause of his death was a fall from the roof of his house; he remained two days unable to speak and then passed away, his collarbone and hip having been broken.’

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