and he deems reliable the one who claims that
the Lord is an old man whose body is hemmed in on every side.
That same year the people’s pilgrimage was led by Ṣāliḥ ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd, acting on the order of his brother al-Maʾmūn.
Among the notable figures who died during this year were:
(1) al-Aswad ibn ʿĀmir;
(2) Saʿīd ibn ʿĀmir;
(3) ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bakr, one of the senior hadith authorities;
(4) al-Faḍl ibn al-Rabīʿ, the chamberlain;
(5) Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab;
(6) Mūsā ibn Muḥammad al-Amīn, whom his father had once named heir-apparent and entitled al-Nāṭiq bil-Ḥaqq (“the One Who Speaks the Truth”); his affair came to nothing after his father was killed and events unfolded as they did;
(7) Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bukayr;
(8) Yaḥyā ibn Ḥassān;
(9) and Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zuhrī.
(1) Aswad ibn ‘Amr Shadhan al-Shami, Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman, resident of Baghdad; reliable; narrated from by the community. Tahdhib al-Kamal, vol. 3, p. 226.
(2) Sa‘id ibn ‘Amr al-Dhub‘i al-Basri, al-Zahid, Abu Muhammad; reliable and righteous. Abu Hatim remarked: “Perhaps he erred.” Taqrib al-Tahdhib, vol. 1, p. 299.
(3) ‘Abd Allah ibn Bakr ibn Ḥabīb al-Sahmi al-Bahili, Abu Wahb al-Basri, resident of Baghdad; authenticated by Ahmad ibn Hanbal and others; one of the jurists and hadith scholars. Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’, vol. 9, p. 450.
(4) The author will provide his biography shortly.
(5) Muḥammad ibn Muṣ‘ab ibn Ṣadaqah al-Qurqasani, Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman (or Abu al-Ḥasan), resident of Baghdad; truthful but prone to errors. Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 9, p. 458; al-Taqrib, vol. 2, p. 208.
(6) In the manuscripts and printed editions: Yahya ibn Abī Bakr; corrected from Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’, vol. 9, p. 497 and its biographical sources. He is Yahya ibn Abī Bukayr ibn Naṣr al-‘Abdī al-Qaysī, their mawla, from Kufa; reliable; narrated from by the community.
(7) Yahya ibn Ḥassān ibn Ḥayyān, Abu Zakariyā al-Bakrī al-Basri, resident of Tinnīs; muhaddith, exemplary, reliable, versed in hadith. Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’, vol. 10, p. 127.
(8) Ya‘qūb ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Sa‘d ibn Ibrāhīm, descendant of the Companion ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ‘Awf, Abu Yūsuf al-Zuhri al-Madani, resident of Baghdad; reliable and distinguished. Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’, vol. 9, p. 491; Taqrib al-Tahdhib, vol. 2, p. 374.