he yearned to spend a single day in quiet seclusion, free from any grief. Yet noon had barely arrived before a blood-stained arrow-feather was brought to him from one of the frontier garrisons, and he cried out, “Not even a single day?!”

Ibn ʿUyaynah said, “No one ever wrote a letter to Hishām that contained any reference to death.”

Al-Haytham ibn ʿImrān said, “Hishām died at al-Ruṣāfa of a swelling in the throat—a sickness known as al-ḥarḏūn—and the caliphate then passed to the heir-apparent, al-Walīd ibn Yazīd.”

It was also said that Hishām was passionately fond of horses, possessing a number of fine steeds beyond description.

His children included: Muʿāwiyah, Khalaf, Maslamah, Muḥammad, Sulaymān, Saʿīd, ʿAbd Allāh, Yazīd al-Afqam, Marwān, Ibrāhīm, Mundhir, ʿAbd al-Malik, al-Walīd, Quraysh, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and several daughters.

This was transmitted by Wakīʿ the judge.

163 – Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurashī al-Taymī * (ʿ)

The son of al-Hudayr ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn ʿĀmir ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥārithah ibn Saʿd ibn Taym ibn Murrah ibn Kaʿb ibn Luʾayy—the Imām, ḥāfiẓ, exemplar, and Shaykh al-Islām, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurashī al-Taymī, of Madinah.

It is also said that his kunya was Abū Bakr, and that he was the brother of Abū Bakr and ʿUmar.

He was born in the early thirties AH.

He narrated (mursal) from the Prophet ﷺ, and from Salmān, Abū Rāfiʿ, Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays, Abū Qatādah, and others. He also transmitted from ʿĀʾishah and Abū Hurayrah, as well as from Ibn ʿUmar, Jābir, Ibn ʿAbbās, Ibn al-Zubayr, and Umaymah bint Ruqayqah,