ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Faqīh al-Maqdisī informed us in his book: ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad told us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī told us; Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī told us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd al-Daqqāq told us; Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān narrated to us—in the year 296 AH—he said: Ḥamzah ibn Mālik narrated to us; my uncle Sufyān ibn Ḥamzah narrated to me, from Kathīr ibn Zayd, from al-Walīd ibn Rabāḥ, from Abū Hurayrah:
that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “People are an outer cloak, while the Anṣār are the inner lining. Were it not for the Emigration, I would have been a man from the Anṣār…,” and he completed the ḥadīth. ⦗1⦘
Those who died in the same year as Ibn Abī Shaybah were: Muṭayyan; ʿUbayd ibn Ghannām; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim al-Rawwās in Damascus; Ibrāhīm ibn Hāshim al-Baghawī; Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Qīrāṭ al-Dimashqī; the jurist Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd al-Ẓāhirī; Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb the judge; Mūsā ibn Isḥāq al-Anṣārī; Aḥmad ibn Abī ʿAwf al-Bazūrī; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythamah; and Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd ibn ʿUthmān al-Ṣadafī.
12 – Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥabīb al-Asadī, known as Jazara,* son of Ḥassān ibn al-Mundhir ibn Abī al-Ashras. His father’s name was