It was also said that Aḥmad ibn Khālid the ḥāfiẓ once read to him the name of Usayd ibn Ḥuḍayr, whereupon he corrected him, stating it with a khāʾ muʿjamah (the dotted khāʾ).
Those who narrated from him include that very Aḥmad, Qāsim ibn Asbagh, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik.
He was a man devoted to worship and marked by scrupulous piety—may Allah pardon him.
He lived to roughly ninety and died in 273 AH.

117 – Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʿath ibn Shaddād* (t, s) (1), son of ʿAmr ibn ʿĀmir (2); this is the form recorded by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Hāshimī said: “Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʿath ibn Bishr ibn Shaddād.”
Ibn Dāsah (3) and Abū ʿUbayd al-Ājurrī stated: “Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʿath ibn Isḥāq ibn Bashīr ibn Shaddād,” and Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb related the same in his History (4), adding: “ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿImrān.”
He is the Imām, the Shaykh of the Sunnah, the foremost of the ḥuffāẓ, Abū Dāwūd al-Azdī al-Sijistānī, the ḥadith authority of Basra.