He also said: In the disciplines of hadith—its collection and classification—he was a devout imam. He had his teeth bound with gold and never dyed his grey hair.
It is reported that he lived for eighty-two years.
He served as deputy judge on behalf of al-Birtī in al-Qaṣr and its districts (1). He became known as “al-Maʿmarī” because he was the son of Umm al-Ḥasan, daughter of Sufyān, son of the shaykh Abū Sufyān Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd al-Maʿmarī. Abū Sufyān had travelled to Yemen to study with Maʿmar, and for that reason he was called “al-Maʿmarī.” Allah knows best (2).
Abū Saʿīd al-Thaghrī (3) narrated to us in Aleppo; ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf informed us; ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Yūsuf informed us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥammāmī informed us; Ibn Qāniʿ reported to us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Maʿmarī narrated to us; Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us; ʿAmr ibn Wāqid narrated from Mūsā ibn Yasār, from Makḥūl, from Junāda ibn Abī Umayya, from Ḥabīb ibn Maslama:
“The Prophet ﷺ allotted the salab (the personal effects of the slain enemy) to the killer.” (4)