to Basra after that! There is another opinion: that al-Aswad remained after the year forty, and this aligns with al-Ḥasan's explicit statement of hearing from him; because he was born around the year 22, so it is possible for him to have heard from him as is apparent. Dr. Bashar leaned towards this in his commentary on "Tahdhīb al-Kamāl" by al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mizzī (3/222-223), so refer to it; it is beneficial. Then I found a third route for his explicit narration from al-Aswad with al-Nasāʾī in "al-Kubrā" (5/184/6861) regarding the ḥadīth prohibiting the killing of offspring, which I had previously extracted in the first volume under number (402), relying on al-Ḥākim's narration of it. Now that "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" by al-Nasāʾī has been printed, we also found the explicit statement there; so it should be transferred to the mentioned ḥadīth. Then I appended it in the new edition, at Maktabat al-Maʿārif - Riyadh. It seems to me that al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mizzī agrees with us in affirming the hearing from him; as evidenced by the fact that when he mentioned the teachers of al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (6/97), explicitly stating his non-attainment of some of them, or the disagreement regarding them as is his habit—and this is due to his precision and thoroughness, may Allāh reward him well—he said: ".. and al-Aswad ibn Sarīʿ (S)"; he did not mention any doubt in his hearing from him, let alone denial, contrary to al-Ḥāfiẓ in his "Tahdhīb"! There is another route for the ḥadīth, narrated by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakrah that al-Aswad ibn Sarīʿ said: I came to the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and said: O Messenger of Allāh! I have praised my Lord with praises and commendations, and you. He said: "Indeed, your Lord loves praise." So I began to recite poetry to him, then a tall bald man asked for permission to enter, and the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said to me: "Be silent," so he entered and spoke for a while then left. I recited to him again, then he came and silenced me! Then he left, and he did this twice or..