Musʿab, the governor of Iraq, married her, after which she entered into several other marriages.
She was bold and awe-inspiring. On one occasion she went in to the caliph Hishām, snatched his turban, mantle, and belt, and he let her keep them.
She composed fine verse.
Someone said, “I visited her and found Jarīr, al-Farazdaq, Jamīl, and Kathīr standing at her door. She ordered that each of them be given one thousand dirhams.”
She died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 117 AH.
She narrated only rarely.
123 – Hārūn ibn Riʾāb Abū Bakr al-Tamīmī * (M, D, S)
The imām, devout scholar, and ascetic worshiper, Abū Bakr al-Tamīmī, al-Usayyidī, of Basra.
He transmitted from Anas ibn Mālik, al-Aḥnaf ibn Qays, Qabīṣah ibn Dhuʾayb, and Kinānah ibn Nuʿaym.
Those who narrated from him include Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, al-Awzāʿī, Shuʿbah, the two Ḥammāds, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, and many others.
Abū Dāwūd said, “It is said that he was the most eminent man of Basra.”
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “Reliable.”
I say: He transmitted very little, so much so that Ibn ʿUyaynah said, “He possesses only four hadiths.”
He would hide his asceticism, wearing wool underneath, and light shone upon his face.
Ibn Shawdhb said, “Whenever I saw Hārūn ibn Riʾāb, it was as though he had just ceased weeping.”
I read to Isḥāq ibn Abī Bakr: Ibn Khalīl informed you; Abū al-Makārim al-Taymī reported to us; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād reported to us; Abū Nuʿaym reported to us; Muḥammad ibn Maʿmar narrated to us; Abū Shuʿayb al-Ḥarrānī reported to us; the Bābluttī related to us; al-Awzāʿī narrated to us; Hārūn ibn Riʾāb told me: “The bearers of the Throne are eight in number, responding to one another in beautiful, melodious voices, saying…”