Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, his freedman Ḥabīb ibn Sālim, and a number of others.

He was among the governors appointed by Muʿāwiyah; the latter placed him over Kūfah for a time. He then served as chief judge of Damascus after Faḍālah⦗1⦘, and later became governor of Ḥimṣ.

Al-Bukhārī said: “He was born in the year of the Hijrah.”

It is related that al-Aʿshā of Hamdān came to al-Nuʿmān while he was governor of Ḥimṣ. Al-Nuʿmān mounted the pulpit and proclaimed:

“O people of Ḥimṣ—your names in the register number twenty thousand! Here is your cousin, a nobleman from Iraq, who has come seeking your support. What do you say?”

They replied, “May Allah set the governor aright; you decide for him.”

He refused.

They said, “Then we have decided for him—two dinars each.”

So he immediately disbursed the amount from the public treasury, forty thousand dinars in all.

Simāk ibn Ḥarb said, “By Allah, al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr was one of the most eloquent speakers I have ever heard.”

It is reported that when al-Nuʿmān called the people of Ḥimṣ to pledge allegiance to Ibn al-Zubayr, they put him to death. Another account states that he was killed in the village of Birīn⦗2⦘; Khālid ibn Khalīy slew him after the battle of Marj Rāhiṭ, toward the end of the year 64 AH.

67 – al-Walīd ibn ʿUqbah ibn Abī Muʿayṭ ibn Abī ʿAmr al-Umawī, a descendant of Umayyah ibn ʿAbd Shams ibn ʿAbd Manāf,