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ahmad-zuhd:1848ʿAbdullāh > Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Fuḍayl > Aswad b. ʿĀmir Shādhān > Sulaymān b. al-Mughīrah > Ḥumayd b. Hilāl > Abū al-Sawwār > Khaṭab al-Ḥakam b. Ayyūb Fajaʿal > al-Zuhd

[Machine] Abu Al-Sawwar said, "This person renounces materialism and has thirty thousand (followers)"  

الزهد لأحمد:١٨٤٨حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ فُضَيْلٍ أَنْبَأَنَا أَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ شَاذَانُ حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ عَنْ أَبِي السَّوَّارِ قَالَ خَطَبَ الْحَكَمُ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ فَجَعَلَ يَذْكُرُ الزُّهْدَ فَقَالَ

أَبُو السَّوَّارِ «هَذَا يُزَهِّدُ النَّاسَ وَعِنْدَهُ ثَلَاثُونَ أَلْفًا»