His son:
29 – ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Nawfal al-Hāshimī* (ʿ)
He was better known by the nickname “Babba.”
He was born during the Prophet’s ﷺ lifetime.
When Yazīd died, the people of Basra gathered and agreed to appoint him as their governor.
Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār said, “He was the son of Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān’s sister, whose name was Hind. She used to bounce him on her knee and chant:
O Babba, O Babba—
I shall surely wed Babba
to a vigorous maiden,
who will rule the people of the Kaʿbah. (1)
Later, the Basrans concluded a pact and installed him when ʿUbayd Allah ibn Ziyād fled, and they wrote to Ibn al-Zubayr pledging their allegiance to him. He, in turn, ratified their choice.
ʿAbd Allah narrated hadith from ʿUmar, ʿUthmān, Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, ʿAlī, al-ʿAbbās, Kaʿb al-Aḥbār, and a number of others, and he also transmitted some reports in mursal form.
He was present with ʿUmar at al-Jābiyah.
Among those who related hadith from him were his two sons, Isḥāq and ʿAbd Allah, Abū al-Tayyāḥ Yazīd ibn Ḥumayd, and Ibn —
(*) Ibn Saad, al-Tabaqat, 4/1/33; Nasab Quraysh, 30–31, 86; Khalifah, al-Tabaqat, 191, 202, 231, 239; Khalifah, al-Tarikh, 258–259; al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 5/63; al-Jarh wa-l-Ta‘dil, 5/30–31; Mashahir ‘Ulama al-Amsar, no. 480; al-Istia‘ab, 6/143; Usud al-Ghabah, 3/206; Tahdhib al-Kamal, 673; Tarikh al-Islam, 3/263; al-‘Ibar, 1/98; al-‘Iqd al-Thamin, 5/128–129; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 5/180; al-Isabah, 7/201; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, 194; Shadharāt al-Dhahab, 1/94–95.
(1) The rajaz line is recorded in Lisān, 1/221, and in al-Istī‘āb, 3/207, both reading “tajub” in place of “tasawwid.” The same wording appears in the marginal notes to al-Kāmil of al-Mubarrad (no. 1042) and in Ibn Durayd’s al-Ishtiqāq, p. 70, where he explains “tajub” as “she surpasses the women of Quraysh in beauty.”
The version given in Tarīkh Baghdād, 1/212, runs: “lanakḥanna babbatan jāriyatan khadbatan, mukarramatan muḥibbatan tuḥibbu ahla al-ka‘bah,” while al-Kāmil, 4/137, transmits: “lanakḥanna babbatan, jāriyatan fī qubbatin, tumashshitu ra’sa lu‘batin.”