with the funds still in his possession.
He (Ibn ʿUyaynah) said: ʿAbd al-Malik, on hearing that, exclaimed, “Will you not leave the man alone until he takes up his sword and dies an honorable death!” When he saw how matters stood, he wrote to al-Ḥajjāj instructing him to set the affair aside. (1)

Ibn Khallikān said (2): He is the one who dug the Well of ʿUrwah in Madinah, and no water in the city is purer or sweeter than its water.

Jarīr reported from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, who said: “I have never heard anyone from the deviant sects speak ill of my father.” (3)

Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿIjlī said: “ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr was a Successor, reliable, a righteous man who kept entirely clear of the civil strife.” (4)

Ibn Khirāsh said: “Reliable.” (5)

Muʿāwiyah ibn Isḥāq narrated from ʿUrwah that he said, “He has not shown true dutifulness to his parents who merely lifts his gaze toward them.” (5)

ʿĀmir ibn Ṣāliḥ related from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah: “My brother Muḥammad—whose mother was the daughter of al-Ḥakam ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ—fell from the highest roof into al-Walīd’s stable. The animals trampled him with their hooves and killed him.” (6)

A man came to ʿUrwah to offer condolences. ʿUrwah said, “If you are consoling me over my leg, I have already counted it in the balance of patience.” The man replied, “No, I have come to console you for your son Muḥammad.” ʿUrwah asked, “What has happened to him?” When the news was broken to him, he said, “O Allah, You have taken one limb and left me others; You have taken one son and left me sons.” Then, when