His days were long-lasting (1); at times he acted unjustly, oppressing people with harshness. He seized Medina through his son Ḥasan, whereupon Ḥasan killed its governor—his own uncle—then strangled his father, this very Qatādah, and afterward killed his other uncle. Qatādah also composed fine poetry, and he lived to the age of ninety (2).

108 – al-ʿUthmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Ghālib ibn Naṣr *
A hadith scholar and righteous wanderer, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Ghālib ibn Naṣr al-Umawī, known as al-ʿUthmānī, hailing from Damascus.

Birth: Bayt Lahyā, 569 AH.

He received hadith from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Mawāzīnī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Khiraqī, and others; in Baghdad from Ibn Kulayb and a group of scholars; in Isfahan from Khalīl al-Rārānī, Masʿūd al-Jammāl, and several others; in Nishapur from Abū Saʿd al-Ṣaffār; and he also studied in Egypt and the frontier towns.

He was devout, God-fearing, and trustworthy. He recorded a vast amount of material and transmitted most of what he gathered, and he was granted some extraordinary dreams.