the nobleman, Abū Wahb—also called Abū Ṭarīf al-Ṭāʾī— a Companion of the Prophet ﷺ and the son of Ḥātim Ṭayy, whose generosity became proverbial.

ʿAdiyy came to the Prophet ﷺ in the middle of year 7 AH; the Prophet welcomed and honored him.

He transmitted several hadith.

Among those who narrated from him are al-Shaʿbī, Muḥill ibn Khalīfah, Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, Khaythamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Tamīm ibn Ṭarafah, ʿAbd Allah ibn Maʿqil al-Muzanī, Muṣʿab ibn Saʿd, Hammām ibn al-Ḥārith, Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, and others.

He was one of the men who crossed the Samāwah desert with Khālid ibn al-Walīd on the march to Syria. Khālid then dispatched him with the khums to al-Ṣiddīq (Abū Bakr). He resided for a time in Kūfah and later in Qarqīsiyā in the Upper Mesopotamian region.

Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī relates, through Ibn Sīrīn, from Abū ʿUbaydah ibn Ḥudhayfah:

“I used to ask people about the hadith of ʿAdiyy ibn Ḥātim while he was right beside me, yet I never approached him. Eventually I went to him and asked, and he said:

‘When the Prophet ﷺ was sent, I disliked him. Later, while I was in Byzantine territory, I thought: If only I could go to this man; if he is truthful, I will follow him.

When I arrived in Medina, the people stared at me. He said, “O ʿAdiyy, accept Islam and you will be safe.”

I replied, “I have a religion already.”

He said, “I know your religion better than you do. Are you not the chief of your people?”

I answered, “Indeed.”

He said, “Are you not a Rakūsian (1) who appropriates the royal quarter share (2)?”

I replied, “Yes.”

He said, “That is not lawful for you in your religion.”

That remark unsettled me.

Then he said again, “O ʿAdiyy, accept Islam and you will be safe,” and I suppose that among the matters…’” }