It was also said that Thaʿlab was thought to be miserly (1), and he left an estate of six thousand dinars.
He kept the company of Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir and tutored his son Ṭāhir, who granted him a stipend of one thousand a month.
Among his writings are: The Disagreement of the Grammarians, The Readings, The Meanings of the Quran, and several other works (2).
He lived to a great age and became deaf. A beast of burden struck him, causing him to fall into a pit, and he died from the injury in Jumādā al-Ūlā, 291 AH.
2 – Abū Khalīfah al-Faḍl ibn al-Hubāb al-Jumaḥī*
The Imām, erudite scholar, ḥadīth expert, man of letters, historian, and leading shaykh of his time: Abū Khalīfah al-Faḍl ibn al-Hubāb.
Al-Hubāb’s given name was ʿAmr ibn Muḥammad ibn Shuʿayb al-Jumaḥī, a blind scholar from Basra.
He was born in 206 AH, devoted himself to this pursuit while still an adolescent, began hearing ḥadīth in 220 AH, met the eminent scholars, and recorded a vast store of knowledge.