—and he even met Abū Nuʿaym.

He once entered upon the vizier ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, who asked him, “How old is the judge?”
He replied, “I really do not know. What I can tell you is that a marvel appeared in Kūfa, and I rode out with my father in the year 215 AH.”

One narrator quoted him with the additional words: “I rode with my father to the governor appointed by al-Maʾmūn, and now I have ridden to the vizier’s audience—there are a full one hundred years between the two rides.”

Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Shāhīn said: “He reached one hundred and sixteen years of age.”

I (the author) say: He died in Shawwāl, 317 AH.

Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq informed us; al-Fath ibn ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Hibat Allāh ibn Abī Sharīk informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad related to us; ʿĪsā ibn al-Wazīr related to us; Badr ibn al-Haytham related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd al-Kindī related to us; al-Mughīra ibn Jamīl al-Kindī told me; Sulaymān ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh told me, saying: My father told me, from my grandfather, Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Walāʾ (the bond of clientage) is neither to be revoked nor to be transferred.” (1)

Al-ʿUqaylī remarked (2): “Al-Mughīra is rejected in ḥadith.” He then cited the same report through another shaykh from al-Ashajj.

305 – al-Mīramāhānī, Abū Yazīd Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Khālid*
An imām, ḥadith scholar, trustworthy authority, and learned man.

He studied under Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh—specifically his Qurʾān commentary—as well as Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rizma, ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr, Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn