Al-Nasāʾī declared him unreliable, saying, “His ḥadith are to be abandoned; he was a Basran.”
Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr transmitted from Yaḥyā who said, “He is not as bad as that.”
Ḥammād ibn Zayd, narrating from Yaḥyā al-Bakkāʾ, said: “I heard a man say to Ibn ʿUmar, ‘I truly love you.’
He replied, ‘And I, for Allah’s sake, dislike you.’
The man asked, ‘Why?’
He said, ‘Because you embellish your call to prayer and you take payment for it.’”
162 – Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān, Abū al-Walīd al-Umayyad
The caliph, Abū al-Walīd al-Qurashī, of the Umayyad house, from Damascus.
He was born sometime after 70 AH, and the succession was secured for him by a formal covenant issued by his brother Yazīd, with the caliphate after him to pass to Yazīd’s son al-Walīd.
His residence stood by the Dyers’ Gate; today part of it is the Nūrī School and mausoleum.⦗1⦘
He assumed the caliphate in Shaʿbān 105 AH and remained in office until his death in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, at the age of fifty-four.
His mother was Fāṭimah bint the amir Hishām ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Hishām, the brother of Khālid—the two sons of al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīrah al-Makhzūmī.
He was handsome, fair-skinned, stout, slightly cross-eyed, and he dyed his hair black.
Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī said: “They allege that ʿAbd al-Malik once saw in a dream that he urinated in the miḥrāb four…"