Someone said to him, “Did you not say that not even two goats would butt heads over it?”
He replied, “Indeed—but many eyes will be gouged out (1).”
It was also said that his son was killed on that very day.
Abu Ishaq related, “I saw ʿAdiyy—an imposing, one-eyed man—prostrating on a wall about a cubit high.”
Abu Hatim al-Sijistani stated, “They say ʿAdiyy ibn Hatim lived one hundred and eighty years (2).”
Jarir narrated, on the authority of Mughira:
“ʿAdiyy, Jarir al-Bajali, and Hanzala the scribe left Kufa and stopped at Qarqisiya, declaring, ‘We will not remain in a town where ʿUthman is reviled (3).’”
Ibn al-Kalbi said, “ʿAdiyy died in the year 67 AH, at the age of one hundred and twenty.”
Ibn Saʿd said, “In the year 68.”
Another report says, “In the year 66.”
27 – Zayd ibn Arqam ibn Zayd ibn Qays al-Ansari * (ʿ)
the son of al-Nuʿman ibn Malik al-Aghar ibn Thaʿlaba ibn Kaʿb ibn
= This is a reference to a specific matter about which there is no disagreement.
(1) Ibn Asakir, 11/241 b. He further notes: “He said: on the day of Siffin, whereas Adi’s eye was actually put out on the Day of Jamal.”
(2) Quoted by the author in his Tarikh, 3/48, adding: “When he grew old, he asked his tribe for a cushion on which to sit in their gathering-place and said: ‘I dislike that any of you should think I claim any superiority, but I have become aged and my bones have become fragile.’”
(3) Tarikh Baghdad, 1/191; Ibn Asakir, 11/243 a. — Qarqisya is a town in Syria on the Khabur River, six farsakhs from Rahbat Malik b. Tuq; it is located where the Khabur flows into the Euphrates, forming a triangle between the two rivers (Muʿjam al-Buldan).
(4) In his Tarikh, 3/48, the author attributes this view to Abu Ubayd.
* Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 6/18; Khalifa, Tabaqat, nos. 594 and 931; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 3/385; al-Fasawi, Maʿrifa wa-l-Tarikh, 1/303; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, 3/554; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlama al-Amsar, no. 296; Jumhara…