large jars of gold and hid them away for me. He added that he lived a long life, spent the treasure until nothing remained, and eventually fell into hardship. His birth preceded his grandfather’s death by a little over ten years.

Al-Ḥāfiẓ Yaʿqūb died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 262 AH. I have obtained a single fascicle of his Musnad of ʿAmmār.

I read this before the ḥadith master Abū Muḥammad Ibn Khalaf. He said: Yahyā ibn Abī al-Suʿūd relates to you; Fakhru an-Nisāʾ Shuhda relates to us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad an-Niʿālī relates to us; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn Mahdī relates to us; and Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah narrated to us in 331 AH, saying: My grandfather told us; ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim told us; ʿAṭāʾ ibn as-Sāʾib informed us; from Abū al-Bakhtarī al-Ṭāʾī, who said:

“Ammār once argued with a man who then spoke abusively to him. Ammār replied, ‘In that case I would be like someone who does not perform the Friday bath.’ The man came back and abused him again, so Ammār said, ‘If you are lying, may Allah increase your wealth and your children, and may people trample on your heels.’” (1)

With this same chain Yaʿqūb said: Rawḥ ibn ʿUbādah related to us; Ibn ʿAwn related to us; from al-Ḥasan, from his mother, from Umm Salamah, who said (2):

“We have not forgotten the dust on the chest hair of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while he was saying, ‘O Allah, true goodness is the goodness of the Hereafter, so forgive the Helpers and the Emigrants,’ when Ammār arrived. The Prophet then said, ‘Woe to you, O son of Sumayya! The rebellious faction will kill you.’” (3)