generous, praiseworthy, courageous, and of considerable rank; he fought in noted campaigns and governed Basra for Ibn al-Zubayr.

He related hadith from Ibn ʿUmar and Jābir, while ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ and Ibn ʿAwn transmitted from him.

He later served as governor of Fārs, then visited ʿAbd al-Malik, and died in Damascus.

He was just reaching adolescence at the time ʿUthmān was killed. The Qurayshites called him “the Ruddy One of Quraysh,” and his bravery became proverbial.

On one occasion he sent a thousand dinars to Ibn ʿUmar, who accepted them and said, “A kinsman has maintained the tie of kinship.”

It is also said that he once bought a slave-girl for one hundred thousand (dinars). When she wept over separation from her former master, he told the man, “Take her back—and keep the price.”

Al-Madāʾinī stated that he died in 82 AH.

64 – Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī, Saʿd ibn Iyās (ʿ)

His full name is Saʿd ibn Iyās al-Kūfī, from the clan of Shaybān ibn Thaʿlabah ibn ʿUkābah.

He lived through the pre-Islamic era and came close to being counted among the Companions.

He reported hadith from ʿAlī, Ibn Masʿūd, Ḥudhayfah, and others.

Those who narrated from him include Manṣūr, al-Aʿmash, Sulaymān al-Taymī, al-Walīd ibn al-ʿAyzār, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, Abū Muʿāwiyah ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Nakhaʿī, and many more.