is that what keeps you from embracing Islam is the want you notice among those around me, and that you see the people massed against us in a single alliance. Have you ever been to al-Hirah?”

I replied, “I have not been there, though I know where it is.”

He said, “A time is near when a woman in her howdah will set out from al-Hirah without escort and will circumambulate the House—in safety. And the treasures of Chosroes will most surely be opened up to us.”

I exclaimed, “Chosroes son of Hormizd!”

He answered, “Yes, Chosroes son of Hormizd. And wealth will pour forth until a man will worry about finding someone willing to accept his money as charity.”

ʿAdiyy adds, “I have seen two of these come to pass, and I swear by Allah that the third will also arrive—meaning the overflowing of wealth (1).”

Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim narrated that ʿAdiyy ibn Ḥātim came to ʿUmar and said, “Do you not recognize me?”

He replied, “I do know you: you remained steadfast (2) when they turned away in disbelief, you kept faith when they were treacherous, and you advanced when they retreated (3).”

Ibn ʿUyaynah said: I was told, on the authority of al-Shaʿbī, that ʿAdiyy said, “No time for prayer ever arrives without my longing for it.”

And he also said, “Since the day I accepted Islam, the call to prayer has never been given except that I was already in a state of wudu.”

Abū ʿUbaydah stated: “ʿAdiyy ibn Ḥātim led the tribe of Tayy at Ṣiffīn on the side of ʿAlī.”

Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān reported from Ibn Sīrīn that, when ʿUthmān was killed, ʿAdiyy said, “Not even two goats will butt heads over it (4).”

His eye was gouged out on the day of Ṣiffīn, and it was said