53 – Muhammad ibn Yazīd narrated to us: Musab ibn al-Miqdām narrated to us: Dāwūd ibn Nusayr narrated to us, from al-Amash, from Ibn Awn, from Ibrāhīm, who said:
When they gathered together, they disliked for a man to display the best of what he had.
54 – Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to me: Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Yūnus narrated to me: Fudayl narrated to us, from al-Sarī ibn Yahyā, that Umar ibn Abd al-Azīz delivered a sermon. He praised Allah, but then became choked with tears. He then said:
“O people, set right your Hereafter, and Allah will set right your worldly life for you. Set right your inner selves, and Allah will set right your outward conduct for you. By Allah, any servant whose every forefather between him and Adam has died surely has deep roots in death—just as one is said to have deep roots in nobility; that is, he inevitably has a root(1) in it.”
[53] Musab ibn al-Miqdam al-Khathamī, their client, Abū Abd Allāh al-Kūfī, was generally truthful, though he made errors. He died in 203 AH. *Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb*, p. 533.
Dāwūd ibn Nusayr, Abū Sulaymān al-Tā’ī al-Kūfī, was a trustworthy jurist and ascetic. He died in 160 AH, or, according to another report, in 165 AH. *Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb*, p. 200.
Al-Amash was Sulaymān ibn Mihrān; his biography appeared previously in report (11).
Ibn Awn was Abd Allāh ibn Awn ibn Artabān, Abū Awn al-Basrī. He was trustworthy and precise and died in 150 AH. *Tahdhīb al-Kamāl*, 2/233.
[54] Al-Fudayl was Ibn Iyād; his biography appeared previously in report (22).
Ahmad ibn Abd Allāh ibn Yūnus al-Kūfī al-Tamīmī was a trustworthy hadith master. He died in 227 AH. *Tahdhīb al-Kamāl*, 1/375; *Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb*, p. 81.
Al-Sarī ibn Yahyā ibn Iyās ibn Harmala al-Shaybānī al-Muhallamī, Abū al-Haytham—also said to have been known as Abū Yahyā—al-Basrī, was trustworthy and sound in hadith. He died in 167 AH. *Tahdhīb al-Kamāl*, 10/232.
(1) That is, *asl* (origin).