Second — Two Companions each lived sixty years in the pre-Islamic era and sixty years after the advent of Islam, and both passed away in Madinah in 54 AH: Ḥakīm ibn Ḥizām and Ḥassān ibn Thābit ibn al-Mundhir ibn Ḥarām. Ibn Isḥāq relates that Ḥassān and each of his three forefathers lived to the age of one hundred and twenty, a span not recorded for anyone else among the Arabs. Another opinion places Ḥassān’s death in 50 AH.

Third — The Imams whose legal schools are followed:
• Sufyān al-Thawrī died in Baṣrah in 161 AH; he had been born in 97 AH.
• Mālik ibn Anas died in Madinah in 179 AH; reports differ concerning his birth, being variously given as 93 AH, 91 AH, 94 AH, or 97 AH.
• Abū Ḥanīfah, al-Nuʿmān ibn Thābit, died in Baghdad in 150 AH at the age of seventy.
• Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī died in Egypt at the end of Rajab 204 AH; he was born in 150 AH.
• Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal died in Baghdad in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 241 AH; he had been born in 164 AH.

Fourth — The authors of the canonical ḥadīth collections:
• Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Bukhārī was born on Friday, 3 Shawwāl 194 AH, and died on the eve of Eid al-Fiṭr, 256 AH.
• Muslim died in Nīshāpūr with five days of Rajab remaining, 261 AH, at the age of fifty-five.
• Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī died in Baṣrah in Shawwāl 275 AH.
• Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī died in Tirmidh on the thirteenth of Rajab 279 AH.
• Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasāʾī died in 303 AH.