Abū Bishr Ḥawshab al-Thaqafī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Mourad, Suleiman A.
Leiden
Brill
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Abū Bishr Ḥawshab b. Muslim al-Thaqafī al-Ṭayālisī (d. 131/749) was a traditionist and ascetic from Basra, a disciple of al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (d. 110/728), and a companion of the ascetic ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Zayd (d. after 150/767). Ḥawshab was a client (mawlā) of the famous Umayyad governor of Iraq, al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī (d. 95/714), hence his nisba al-Thaqafī. Ḥawshab's profession was selling ṭaylasān s (scarf-like wraps worn around the head and neck) in the market of