“How melodious your voice is! Are you not afraid that your uvula (1) might split from the force of it?”
He answered, “Commander of the Believers, you have just arrived, and I wanted you to hear my voice.”
ʿUmar said, “Abū Maḥdhūrah, this is a very hot land. Wait until the heat subsides a little before the prayer, then wait again; after that, give the adhan, then the iqamah, and you will find me with you.”
Abū Ḥudhayfah al-Nahdī reported: Ayyūb ibn Thābit narrated to us, on the authority of Ṣafiyyah bint Bahrah (2):
“Abū Maḥdhūrah had a long forelock at the front of his head; when he sat down he let it hang, and it would reach the ground.”
Ibn Jurayj said: I heard our companions relate, from Ibn Abī Mulaykah, that when Muʿāwiyah’s mu’adhdhin once called the adhan, Abū Maḥdhūrah seized him and threw him into the Zamzam well.
25 – Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān, Ṣakhr ibn Ḥarb al-Umawī * (ʿ),
son of Umayyah ibn ʿAbd Shams ibn ʿAbd Manāf ibn Quṣayy ibn
(1) al-marita’ (patterned like al-humayra’): the lower part of the abdomen, between the navel and the pubic region.
(2) Bahra (with an open b-sound and a silent h), as recorded in al-Mushtabih 1/50, al-Ikmal 1/191, Tabsir al-Muntabih 1/66, and Tawdiḥ al-Mushtabih; the manuscript wrongly reads tajra’a.
(*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrá 3/32; 7/406. — al-Zubayrī, Nasab Quraysh, 124 ff. — Khalīfa, al-Ṭabaqāt nos. 51, 969, 2809. — Ibn Ḥabīb, al-Muhabbar (see index). — al-Bukhārī, al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr 7/326. — Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿārif, 344. — Yaʿqūbī, Maʿrifa wa-l-Tārīkh 1/305. — al-Balādhurī, Ansāb al-Ashrāf 4/5, 136. — Ibn Abī Ḥātim, al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl 8/377. — al-Ṭabarī, Tārīkh 5/323 ff. — al-Masʿūdī, Murūj al-Dhahab 3/188 ff.; 220 ff. — Ibn Ḥazm, Jumhurat Ansāb al-ʿArab, 112–113 (see index). — Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istīʿāb, 1416. — al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Tārīkh Baghdād 1/207. — al-Kalābādhī, Jamʿ Bayna Rijāl al-Ṣaḥīḥayn 2/489. — Ibn ʿAsākir, Tārīkh 16/336 b. — Ibn Samura, Ṭabaqāt Fuqahāʾ al-Yaman, 47. — Ibn al-Athīr, Jāmiʿ al-Uṣūl 9/107; Usd al-Ghāba 4/385; al-Kāmil 4/5. — al-Nawawī, Tahdhīb al-Asmāʾ wa-l-Lughāt 1/2/102. — al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, 1343. — al-Dhahabī, Tārīkh al-Islām 2/318; Tadhhīb al-Tahdhīb 4/50 a. — al-Yāfiʿī, Mirʾāt al-Jinān 1/131. — Ibn Kathīr, al-Bidāya wa-l-Nihāya 8/20; 8/117. — al-Haythamī, Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid 9/354. — Ibn al-Fikhanī, al-ʿIqd al-Thamīn.