then he asked, “Do you think al-Ḥajjāj is still plunging down through Hell, or has he already hit its bottom?”

He replied, “Do not say that, for he will be resurrected alongside the one who appointed him.”

Sulaymān said, “That is exactly the sort of man one ought to employ.”

He had his accounts examined and discovered that he had not betrayed the treasury of so much as a single dirham. Sulaymān even considered making him his chief scribe. Later, Yazīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik appointed him governor of Ifrīqiyah; the Khārijites rose against him and killed him for his injustice in the year 102 AH.

232 – Abū Baḥriyya* ʿAbd Allah b. Qays al-Kindī (4)
Al-Tarāghamī, from Ḥimṣ, one of the senior Tābiʿīn; he attended ʿUmar’s sermon at al-Jābiya.

He narrated hadith from ʿUmar, Muʿādh, Abū al-Dardāʾ, Abū Hurayra, and others.

Transmitters from him include Khālid b. Maʿdān, Yazīd b. Quṭayb, Ḍamra b. Ḥabīb, Yūnus b. Maysara, his son Baḥriyya b. ʿAbd Allah, Abū Ẓabya al-Kalāʿī, Abū Bakr b. Abī Maryam, and many more.

He was learned, upright, devout, and took part in jihad.

Al-Wāqidī reports that ʿUthmān wrote to Muʿāwiya: “Send out on the summer campaign a man who is trustworthy with the Muslims and gentle in leading them.” Muʿāwiya thereupon chose Abū Baḥriyya ʿAbd Allah b. Qays—a jurist and ascetic whose hadith were transmitted—until he died during the caliphate of al-Walīd.

Muʿāwiya and the later Umayyad caliphs held him in high esteem.

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– Busr (1) b. Saʿīd al-Madanī, client of Banī al-Ḥaḍramī* (ʿ)
An imām and exemplar, from Medina, and a client of Banī al-Ḥaḍramī.