236 – Ziyād al-Aʿjam b. Sulaym al-ʿAbdī*—their client, (Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah)
One of the outstanding poets.
He is Abū Umāmah, Ziyād b. Sulaym al-ʿAbdī, their client.
A foreign accent colored his speech.
He transmitted hadith from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī—having taken part with him in the conquest of Istakhr (1)—and from ʿAbd Allah b. ʿAmr.
His narrations are found in the Sunan collections.
Those who reported from him include Ṭāwūs, Hishām b. Qaḥdham (2), and Hishām’s brother al-Muḥabbar b. Qaḥdham (2).
He composed panegyrics for ʿAbd Allah b. Jaʿfar and elegies for al-Muhallab.
He also formed part of a delegation to Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik.
His hadith were recorded by Abū Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, and Ibn Majah—and Allah knows best.
237 – al-Rāʿī Abū Jandal ʿUbayd b. Ḥuṣayn al-Numayrī**
One of the foremost poets—Abū Jandal ʿUbayd b. Ḥuṣayn al-Numayrī—about whom Jarīr said:
(*) Ibn Qutayba, Tabaqat fuhul al-shuara, p. 693; idem, al-Shiʿr wa-l-shuʿara, p. 343; Abu al-Faraj al-Isbahani, Kitab al-Aghani, 14:102 (under the form Ziyad b. Sulayman); Yaqut, Muʿjam al-udaba, 11:168 (under the form Ziyad b. Salma); Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh Dimashq, 6:237 b; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 4:113; idem, al-ʿIbar, 1:123; Sharh shawahid al-Mughni, p. 206; Khizanat al-adab, 4:193; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-dhahab, 1:123; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tahdhib, 5:404; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-tahdhib, 3:370.
(1) Istakhr: a city in the province of Fars, ranked among its principal fortresses and towns. Some report that it was first built by Istakhr b. Tahmuras, the Persian king; see Yaqut, Muʿjam al-buldan.
(2) The manuscript reads "Mahdham," which is a scribal error.
(**) Ibn Qutayba, Tabaqat fuhul al-shuara, p. 502; Abu al-Faraj al-Isbahani, Kitab al-Aghani, 20:168; Daraqutni, al-Muʾtalif wa-l-mukhtalif, p. 122; al-Suyuti, Simt al-liali, p. 50; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh Dimashq, 11:6 a; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 4:111; Sharh shawahid al-Mughni, p. 336; Khizanat al-adab, 1:504.