myself and my family if I show you to a treasure that will belong to you and to your commander?"
I replied, "Yes," and sent a man with him. He returned with two enormous chests containing nothing but pearls, emeralds, and rubies. I lifted them and travelled with them to ʿUmar. When I presented them, he said, "Deposit them in the Public Treasury," so I did, then hurried back to Kūfa. ʿUmar’s courier did not overtake me until I was already in Kūfa; he tethered his camel to the fore-leg of mine and said, "Report to the Commander of the Believers." I went back to ʿUmar, who said, "What business have I with Ibn Umm al-Sāʾib, and what business has Ibn Umm al-Sāʾib with me?" I asked, "What has happened?" He replied, "By Allah, I had only fallen asleep when angels began dragging me to those two chests; they were ablaze, and they kept saying, ‘We shall brand you with them!’ I protested, ‘I will distribute them among the Muslims.’ So take them from me—may you be spared reproach—go to the chests, sell them, and put the proceeds into the Muslims’ stipends and provisions."

So I took them to the mosque of Kūfa. Merchants crowded around me, and ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth bought them from me for one million dirhams. He then carried them to Persian territory and sold them for four million, and he remained the wealthiest man in Kūfa thereafter.

In the same year, ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ marched against Barqah, conquered it, and concluded a treaty with its people for thirteen thousand dinars.

That year also, Abū Hāshim ibn ʿUtbah ibn Rabīʿah ibn ʿAbd Shams negotiated the surrender of Antioch, Malaga, and other towns. Abū Hāshim had embraced Islam at the Conquest of Mecca; his faith was sound, and a hadith of his appears in the Sunan of al-Nasāʾī and elsewhere. Among those who narrated from him were Abū Hurayrah and Samrah ibn Sahm. He was a maternal uncle of Muʿāwiyah and took part in the Syrian campaigns.