Zirr ibn Hubaysh

Zirr ibn Hubaysh al-Asadi, Abu Maryam, a Kufan Successor of Banu Ghadira; he transmitted from Umar and Ali and the people of Kufa transmitted from him; he died there in 82 AH aged one hundred and twenty-two, and was among the most eloquent Arabs ¹.

Ibn Hibban writes in al-Thiqat: Zirr ibn Hubaysh al-Asadi of the people of Kufa, of Banu Ghadira, his kunya Abu Maryam — it is also said Abu Mutarrif — transmits from Umar and Ali; the Kufans transmitted from him; he died there in year eighty-two before the Jamajim, aged one hundred and twenty-two; he was among the most eloquent of the Arabs, and Abdallah ibn Mas'ud used to ask him about Arabic ¹.

Zirr ibn Hubaysh was a Kufan scholar of the Successors who lived past a hundred and twenty; Ibn Mas'ud himself used to consult him on the Arabic language because he was among its most eloquent speakers.

• Al-Thiqat of Ibn Hibban, part 4 of the Hyderabad print (Bibliotheca Alexandrina scan BBib-07682, scan p. 275 = printed p. 269).
• Death in the text: 82 AH "before the Jamajim"; his age then one hundred and twenty-two on al-Thiqat's report.
• "Among the most eloquent" is the scan's reading; the edition's apparatus refers to Ibn Hajar's Tahdhib and Ibn Sa'd's Tabaqat.