or fell ill, he would perform twelve rakʿahs during the day. I never saw the Messenger of Allah stand in prayer for an entire night until dawn, nor fast a whole month consecutively except Ramadan.
Muslim (1), through ʿAlī ibn Khashram.
It is also said that Ibn Muṣʿab died in Rajab, 316 AH.
229 – Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl ibn al-Azhar ibn ʿAqīl al-Balkhī *
The ḥāfiẓ, Imām, reliable and peerless scholar—Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Balkhī, the hadith master of Balkh and the author of al-Musnad al-Kabīr, al-Tārīkh, and al-Abwāb.
He studied under ʿAlī ibn Khashram, Ḥammād ibn Nūḥ, ʿAbbād ibn al-Walīd al-Ghubarī, ʿAlī ibn Ishkāb, Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl, and their peers in Khurasan and Iraq.
Those who narrated from him include Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Hinduwānī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Shurayḥ, and a number of scholars from those regions.
He was one of the great repositories of hadith, though news of him has not reached us as completely as it should have.