rings, silver coins, and garments. Abu ‘Amr then rose before the people and declared, “I am the one Abu ‘Uthman had in mind, and had I not feared that someone else might be accused I would have kept silent.”
He gathered up everything, carried it off, and had not yet reached the mosque gate before he had bestowed it all upon the poor (1).
Abu ‘Amr dictated traditions to a group of students who survived him; his first session of dictation was in the year 228 AH.
Al-Ḥakim said, “I heard Abu Bakr al-Ṣibghī say: ‘Abu ‘Amr used to fast by day and enliven the night in worship (2).’”
Al-Ṣibghī added, “More than one person told me that on the very night when Aḥmad ibn ‘Abd Allāh—the tyrant who had seized control of Nishapur—was killed, Abu ‘Amr performed the ‘Ishā’ prayer and then spent the whole night in prayer, loudly supplicating against Aḥmad: ‘O Allah, rip open his belly! O Allah, rip open his belly!’ ”
The hadith scholar of Nishapur, Abu ‘Amr, passed away in Jumada al-Ākhirah, 284 AH.
176 – Ibn ‘Āṣim, Abu al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Rāzī *
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, author, and reliable transmitter: Abu al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Āṣim al-Rāzī.
He learned from his father, who had traveled to ‘Abd al-Razzāq; and he received narrations from ‘Alī ibn al-Madīnī, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Sāmī, Abū al-Rabī‘ al-Zahrānī, and Hudbah ibn