Muḥammad ibn Saʿd narrated in “al-Ṭabaqāt” (1), through Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl, who said: Maslamah bint Zabbān al-Qurayʿiyyah (2) related to us, saying, “I heard Maymūnah the daughter of Abū ʿAsīb say:
‘Abū ʿAsīb would link three consecutive days together in fasting, and he used to perform the Duḥā prayer standing until he became unable to do so (3) [whereupon he prayed seated]. He also kept the fasts of the “white days” (4).’
She added, ‘There was a small bell on his bed; when his voice grew too faint (5) to call me, he would shake it, and whenever he did so I would come.’
Among them is Abū Kabshah al-Anmārī (6)—from the Anmār branch of Madhḥij, according to the prevailing view—a freedman of the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him. There are several opinions regarding his personal name: the best-known is that it was Sulaym, though some say ʿAmr ibn Saʿd, and others reverse the two. He was one of the mawālīd of the land of Daws. Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, citing al-Zuhrī, said that he was present at Badr. He is likewise mentioned by Ibn Isḥāq, al-Bukhārī, al-Wāqidī, Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī, and Abū Bakr ibn Abī Khaythamah. Al-Wāqidī adds that he attended Uḥud and every subsequent engagement, and that he died on the Tuesday when ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb assumed the caliphate—eight days remaining of Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 13 AH.
Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ (7) states that Abū Kabshah, the freedman of the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—died in the year 23 AH.
We have already cited, on the authority of Abū Kabshah, that when the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—passed through al-Ḥijr on his way to Tabūk (8), the people began entering those dwellings. A caller then announced, “Prayer in congregation!” and the people assembled. The Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—said:
“What makes you enter the homes of a people upon whom Allah’s anger was visited?”
A man replied, “We are simply amazed by them, O Messenger of Allah.”
He said,
“Shall I not inform you of something even more astonishing than that? A man from among yourselves who tells you what occurred before you and what will occur (9) after you …”
—and the ḥadīth continues (10).
Imām Aḥmad (11) said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī narrated to us, from Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, from Azhar ibn Saʿīd