amounted to about ten thousand dinars—sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more—and he had further revenues from his properties in al-Aʿrāḍ (1). He never left anyone of Banū Taym in need without supporting him and paying off his debts. Each year, when his returns came in, he would send ʿĀʾishah ten thousand, and he once settled for a certain man of the Taym clan (2) a debt of thirty thousand (3).
Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār said: ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to me that Ṭalḥah ibn ʿUbayd Allah paid, on behalf of ʿUbayd Allah ibn Maʿmar and ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿĀmir ibn Kurayz, eighty thousand dirhams.
Al-Ḥumaydī said: Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us; ʿAmr ibn Dīnār narrated to us; a client of Ṭalḥah informed me, saying, “Ṭalḥah’s daily revenue was one thousand wāfī (4).”
Al-Wāqidī said: Isḥāq ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us, from Mūsā ibn Ṭalḥah, that Muʿāwiyah asked him, “How much liquid wealth did Abū Muḥammad leave behind?”
He replied, “Two million dirhams, plus two hundred thousand dirhams, and two hundred thousand dinars in gold.”
Muʿāwiyah remarked, “He lived praiseworthy and generous.”
…as far as Sana; this region is called al-Sarat, a name derived from its great height. Others say that the Hijaz is the chain of mountains that separates Tihama from Najd, and that the upper part of those mountains is al-Sarat. Al-Hazimi adds: al-Sarat is the mountainous barrier-land that lies between Tihama and Yemen and it extends over a broad area. See Muʿjam al-Buldan, 3/204.
(1) Aʿrad al-Madina: the villages located in the city’s valleys. Shammar defines them as the fertile tracts of its dark soil where crops and date-palms grow. Others say that every valley containing trees is called ʿard (with the first consonant short-vowelled, the second quiescent, and ending with the letter dad). See Muʿjam al-Buldan, 4/102.
(2) Ibn Saʿd has the wording: Sabihah al-Taymi.
(3) Reported by Ibn Saʿd, 3/1/157-158. The Muhammad b. ʿUmar in the chain is al-Waqidi, whose reports are rejected.
(4) Reported by Ibn Saʿd, 3/1/158; also by al-Tabarani in al-Kabir (no. 196) and by Abu Nuʿaym in al-Hilya, 1/88, mursal from ʿAmr b. Dinar. Al-Haythami cites it in Majmaʿ, 9/148, stating that al-Tabarani’s transmitters are reliable, but the isnad is mursal. Al-Wafi is the equivalent of one dirham and four daniq.