He transmitted hadith from his father and his uncle; from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, Abū Hurayrah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Buḥaynah, Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Muʿallā, and others.
Those who reported from him include his sons ʿUmar, ʿĪsā, and Rabāḥ; his cousin Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh; his kinsman ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Zayd; as well as the two Zuhri scholars Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm and Ibn Shihāb, Khubayb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and a number of others.
He was counted among the nobles of his people, and the hadith scholars unanimously accept his narrations as proof.
He died around the year 90 AH.
80 – Ayyūb al-Qirriyyah, Ayyūb ibn Yazīd ibn Qays al-Namari *
He is Ayyūb ibn Yazīd ibn Qays ibn Zurārah al-Namari, al-Hilālī, a Bedouin by origin.
He accompanied al-Ḥajjāj and visited the caliph ʿAbd al-Malik. He was a foremost authority in eloquence, rhetoric, and Arabic language.
Later he joined Ibn al-Ashʿath’s revolt against al-Ḥajjāj, for the latter had dispatched him as an envoy to Ibn al-Ashʿath in Sijistān. Ibn al-Ashʿath forced him to stand, revile al-Ḥajjāj, and declare him deposed, threatening to kill him if he refused, so he complied under duress.
Ayyūb was subsequently captured, and when al-Ḥajjāj struck off his head he regretted it. That occurred in 84 AH.
A number of his eloquent sayings are still in circulation (1).