360 AH in Isfahan; his son Abū Dharr died in 399 AH at a little over sixty years of age.
ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿAṭṭār related to us; Yūsuf ibn Khalīl related to us; ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd ibn Fādshāh and Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd both said:
“Mahmūd ibn Ismāʿīl informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Fādshāh informed us; Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad informed us; Abū Muslim al-Kishshī narrated to us; Abū ʿĀṣim—from Ibn ʿAjlān, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah—said:
‘We were on a journey with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and a man in the caravan cursed his she-camel. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked, “Who has cursed his camel?” The man replied, “Here I am.” He said, “Move it to the rear, for your curse has been answered with regard to it.” (1)’
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad—the ḥāfiẓ—told us; Ibn Khalīl told us; Masʿūd ibn Abī Manṣūr told us; al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad told us; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad ibn Mihrah told us in the year 425 AH; Sulaymān al-Ṭabarānī told us; Muḥammad ibn Ḥayyān al-Māzinī and Abū Khalīfah both said:
“Abū al-Walīd narrated to us; Shuʿbah narrated to us, from ʿAlī ibn Badhīmah, from Abū ʿUbaydah, from his father ʿAbd Allah, who said:
‘Whoever completes a recitation of the Quran in less than three days is merely rattling it off.’ (2)”