Sakhr ibn Juwayriyyah relates—on the authority of Nafiʿ—that he said:
ʿAbd Allah ibn Muṭīʿ and his companions went to Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah and tried to persuade him to depose Yazīd, but he refused. Ibn Muṭīʿ said, “He drinks wine, abandons the prayer, and infringes the ruling of the Book.” Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah replied, “I have not seen in him what you claim. I stayed with him and found him constant in prayer, keen on righteousness, and asking questions about jurisprudence.” Ibn Muṭīʿ retorted, “That is nothing but pretence and ostentation.” (1)
Muhammad ibn Abī as-Sarī al-ʿAsqalānī narrated to us—Yahyā ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Ghaniyyah, from Nawfal ibn Abī al-Furāt—who said:
“I was with ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz when a man remarked, ‘The Commander of the Believers Yazīd said…’ ʿUmar ordered that the man be given twenty lashes.” (2)
Yazīd died halfway through Rabīʿ al-Awwal in the year 64 AH.
9 – ʿUbaydah ibn ʿAmr as-Salmānī al-Murādī al-Kūfī*
A jurist of the Murād tribe, resident in Kūfah, and one of the leading scholars. Their forefather Salmān is the son of Nājiyah ibn Murād. ʿUbaydah embraced Islam in the year of the Conquest of Mecca while he was in Yemen, but he did not meet the Prophet and therefore is not counted among the Companions. He studied under ʿAlī, Ibn Masʿūd, and others, excelled in jurisprudence, and was reliable in ḥadith. Those who transmitted his narrations include Ibrāhīm an-Nakhaʿī, al-Shaʿbī, Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, and ʿAbd Allah ibn