and in his devotion to worship. His grave is still visible there on the shoreline, with the grave of his son Ṣāliḥ right beside it.
Aḥmad al-ʿIjlī said, “I traveled to meet Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, but he died a day before I reached Basra.”
Aḥmad passed away in 261 AH, and his son Ṣāliḥ died in 322 AH.
Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī informed us; ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar informed us; ʿAbd al-Awwal ibn ʿĪsā informed us; Abū Ismāʿīl al-Anṣārī informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī informed us; al-Walīd ibn Bakr related to us; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Zakariyyā narrated to us; Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allah told us, saying, “My father—my father—told me:
A man came to Sufyān al-Thawrī and said, ‘Write me a letter to al-Awzāʿī so that he will narrate to me.’ Sufyān replied, ‘I will write it, but I doubt you will find him alive, for I have seen a sprig of basil borne from the west, and I take that as a sign of al-Awzāʿī’s death.’ The man went to him and found that he had indeed passed away.”
186 – al-Wazdūlī, Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā
A great imam, ḥāfiẓ, and firmly grounded authority—Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Jurjānī, known as “the oil-presser” and “al-Wazdūlī,” compiler of the Musnad. He studied under ʿUbayd Allah ibn Mūsā, Ādam ibn Abī Iyās, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, and their peers. Among those who narrated from him were ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin, Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Jurjānī, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Baṣrī, and others.