47 – Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Kathīr narrated to me: Abd al-Mu’min Abū Abd Allah narrated to us, saying:
“Hassān ibn Abī Sinān had a curtain in his shop. He would take out his basket of account records and spread them before him. He would then station a young servant at the door and say, ‘If you see a man approaching whom you think is coming to see me, let me know.’ He would then stand and pray. If a man came, the servant would alert him, and he would sit down as though he had been attending to his accounts.”
48 – Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to me: Abū Muhammad—meaning Abd Allah ibn Īsā—narrated to me, saying: My father informed me, saying:
“Hassān ibn Abī Sinān used to attend the mosque(1) of Mālik ibn Dīnār. Whenever Mālik spoke, Hassān would weep until his tears flowed before him, yet no sound could be heard from him.”
[47] Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Kathīr ibn Zayd al-Dawraqī al-Nukrī al-Baghdādī was trustworthy and a hadith master. He died in 246 AH. *Tahdhīb al-Kamāl*, 1/249; *Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb*, p. 77.
Abd al-Mu’min Abū Abd Allāh: this is how the name appears in the manuscript. I found no biographical entry for him. He may be Abd al-Mu’min ibn Abd Allāh al-Absī, whose biography appears in *al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr*, 3/2/116; *Mīzān al-I‘tidāl*, 2/674; and *Lisān al-Mīzān*, 4/90.
Hassān ibn Abī Sinān was one of Basra’s devout and scrupulous worshippers. The hāfiz (hadith master) states in *Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb*, p. 158: “Truthful and devout; he died sometime after 120 AH.” The report appears in *Hilyat al-Awliyā’*, 3/115, and *Tahdhīb al-Kamāl*, 6/27.
[48] Abd Allāh ibn Īsā ibn Abd al-Rahmān ibn Abī Laylā was trustworthy, though he had Shia leanings. He died in 130 AH. His father’s name appears in *Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb*, 1/439, as “Abū Īsā” instead of “Īsā,” contrary to *Tahdhīb al-Kamāl*, 15/412, and *Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb*, p. 517.
Mālik ibn Dīnār al-Basrī was an ascetic and devout worshipper. He died around 130 AH. *Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb*, 2/24.
(1) This is how it appears in the original. It may be a corruption of *majlis* (gathering), or the mosque in which Mālik ibn Dīnār preached may have been known by his name.