and then reopened it after three days; by that time he had grown gaunt and his neck was sagging.

Others say he was actually strangled with a kerchief until Umm al-Banīn, al-Walīd’s sister, cried out. For that reason Sulaymān thanked ʿUmar and, after becoming caliph, appointed him as his successor.

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz had led the people in the pilgrimage and campaigned against the Byzantines. Intelligent and clear-minded, he canvassed support for his own claim to the caliphate, but when he heard that his maternal uncle had already been designated, he desisted and accepted obedience.

51 – ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (ʿ)
An eminent imam, reliable transmitter, and just governor, Abū ʿUmar al-ʿAdawī al-Khaṭṭābī al-Madanī, known as al-Aʿraj. He had two brothers, Usayd and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and he held the governorship of Kufa under ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.

He transmitted hadith from Ibn ʿAbbās, Muḥammad ibn Saʿd, Muslim ibn Yasār, and Miqsam.

Among those who narrated from him were his two sons, ʿUmar and Zayd, as well as al-Zuhrī, Zayd ibn Abī Unaysa, and others—the last of them being ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir. Ibn Khirāsh and others declared him trustworthy.

Al-Madāʾinī reports, on the authority of Yaʿqūb ibn Zayd, that ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz awarded his governor over Kufa, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, ten thousand.

I say: ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Khaṭṭābī died in Harrān in the early second century AH, shortly after 110 AH. Though his narrations are few, his stature was great.

52 – ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Rabīʿa al-Makhzūmī **
The poet of Quraysh. His grandfather’s name was ʿUmar ibn al-Mughīra ibn