- ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Rabīʿah ibn al-Mughīrah al-Makhzūmī, son of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Makhzūm ibn Yaqaẓah—the foremost poet of Quraysh in his time. His kunya was Abū al-Khattāb al-Makhzūmī, and he was renowned for his love-poems to Thurayyā al-ʿAbshamiyya.
Birth: the very night ʿUmar ibn al-Khattāb (may Allah be pleased with him) was killed. (1)
His poetry is widely circulated and has been collected. He took part in a naval campaign; the enemy set his ship ablaze, and he perished in the fire sometime around the year 93 AH—Allah knows best regarding the exact date.
- Yaḥyā ibn Waththāb al-Asadī al-Kāhilī, their client ** (M, 4)
The Imām, exemplar, Qurʾān reciter, jurist, and Shaykh of the reciters; an Asadī, Kāhilī client from Kūfah, and one of the eminent leading scholars. I have already mentioned him in Tabaqāt al-Qurrāʾ.
Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ said: Yaḥyā’s father Waththāb was originally named Bazdawayh ibn Māhawayh. Mujāshiʿ ibn Masʿūd al-Sulamī captured him at Qāshān when he conquered it; Waththāb was the son of one of its nobles. He then fell to Ibn ʿAbbās by lot, and Ibn ʿAbbās named him Waththāb.
Waththāb married, and Yaḥyā was born to him. Later he sought Ibn ʿAbbās’s permission to return to Qāshān, and he granted it, whereupon Waththāb and his son Yaḥyā entered Kūfah.
Yaḥyā said, “Father, I have preferred knowledge to wealth.” He therefore allowed him to remain, and Yaḥyā devoted himself to