Ḥātim ibn Abī Ṣaghīrah narrated from Abū Qazaʿah that ʿAbd al-Malik once said while performing ṭawāf: “May Allah fight Ibn al-Zubayr—he is lying about ʿĀʾishah, claiming that the Prophet ﷺ said to her, ‘Were it not that your people have only recently left disbelief, I would have dismantled the House so that I might add the Ḥijr to it.’”

Al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Rabīʿah replied, “Do not say that, O Commander of the Believers, for I myself heard her say it.”

ʿAbd al-Malik answered, “Had I heard that just before I tore it down, I would have left it standing on the construction of Ibn al-Zubayr (1).”

Al-Shaʿbī said, “His mother was a Christian, and the Companions of the Messenger of Allah attended her funeral procession.”

It is also reported that he once confronted them, saying, “We have people of religion other than you,” whereupon Muʿāwiyah remarked, “This man has indeed risen to prominence.”

Another version states that she was an Abyssinian woman, which is why he was dark-skinned. He was an articulate, devout orator (2).

73 – Humrān ibn Abān al-Fārisī * (ʿ)

A jurist and the freedman of the Commander of the Believers, ʿUthmān. He was among the captives taken at ʿAyn al-Tamr (3); ʿUthmān purchased him from al-Musayyib ibn Najabah. He transmitted hadith from ʿUthmān and from Muʿāwiyah, though his narrations are few. Among those who reported from him is ʿAṭāʾ ibn