83 – al-Nuʿmān ibn Muqarrin, Abū ʿAmr al-Muzanī*
He is al-Nuʿmān ibn ʿAmr ibn Muqarrin ibn ʿĀʾidh ibn Mīja (1) ibn Hujayr ibn Naṣr ibn Ḥubshiyya ibn Kaʿb ibn Thawr ibn Huthma ibn Lāṭim ibn ʿUthmān ibn Muzayna.
Abū ʿAmr al-Muzanī, the military commander.
His first campaign was the Battle of the Confederates; he was also present at the Pledge of Riḍwān. He later settled in Kūfa, governed Kaskar on behalf of ʿUmar, who then relieved him and appointed him to lead the Muslims at the Battle of Nihāwand, where he was the first to fall as a martyr.
Sunqur al-Halabī related this to us; ʿAbd al-Laṭīf the philologist informed us; ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī informed us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥammāmī informed us; Ibn Qāniʿ narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Kāmil narrated to us; ʿAffān (2) narrated to us; Ḥammād narrated to us, from Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī, from ʿAlqama ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī, from Maʿqil ibn Yasār, from al-Nuʿmān ibn Muqarrin, who said:
“I witnessed the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: if he did not engage in combat at the beginning of the day, he would wait until the sun had passed its zenith.” (3)
al-Tirmidhī declared the report authentic.
A similar narration has been transmitted from: