until the Jews and the Christians. Never had anything like his funeral been witnessed, nor had anything comparable ever been heard of in al-Andalus﵀.
I say: He died in the decade of the nineties.

265 – Zughbah, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Ḥammād al-Tujībī * (س (1))
A traditionist, long-lived and trustworthy, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Ḥammād ibn Muslim al-Tujībī al-Baṣrī, the brother of ʿĪsā ibn Ḥammād nicknamed Zughbah; this sobriquet belonged to their father and to them both.
He narrated from: Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, Abū Ṣāliḥ, Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr, Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿUfayr, his brother ʿĪsā, and others.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Nasāʾī, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Khalaf al-Nasafī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Wāʿiẓ, Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus, Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarānī, al-Ḥasan ibn Rashīq, and many others.
He lived ninety-four years.
He passed away in Egypt in Jumādā al-Ūlā of the year 296 AH.
Ibn Yūnus recorded his death and said, “He was reliable, trustworthy.”

266 – Ibn Milḥān, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Balkhī **
The shaykh, the ḥadith scholar, the precise memoriser, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn