about someone I was to whip, I carried out the flogging; but if he wrote instructing me to kill a man, I would not kill him.
Abū Dāwūd said: ʿUmayr was executed in cold blood at Dāriyā during the turmoil that arose under al-Walīd, because he had been urging people to assassinate him—that is, he had rallied support for the pledge of allegiance to “the Diminisher.”
He continued: Ibn Murrah put him to death, shaved his head bare, and brought him before Marwān ibn Muḥammad in 127 AH.
Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥawārī remarked, “I loathe him.”
Abū Dāwūd also said, “He held Qadarite views.”
Marwān al-Ṭāṭarī stated, “To Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, ʿUmayr was more hateful than the Fire itself.”
On the day of the Nāqiṣ pledge he proclaimed from the pulpit, “Hurry to this oath of allegiance, for there are only two migrations: a migration to Allah and His Messenger, and a migration to Yazīd ibn al-Walīd.”
186 – Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū al-Hudhayl al-Sulamī* (1) (ʿ)
A leading ḥāfiẓ, a dependable authority, and a long-lived scholar; Abū al-Hudhayl al-Sulamī, a Kufan, the cousin of Manṣūr.
He was born in the time of Muʿāwiyah, around the year 43 AH.
He narrated hadith from ʿUmārah ibn Ruwaybah, the Companion, and from Jābir ibn Samurah; and also from Abū Wāʾil, Zayd ibn Wahb, ʿAmr ibn Maymūn, ʿIyāḍ al-Ashʿarī, Hilāl ibn Yasāf, Murrah ibn Sharāḥīl, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Qatādah, Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, Saʿd ibn ʿUbaydah, Abū Ẓabiyān Ḥuṣayn ibn Jundab, al-Shaʿbī, ʿIrāk al-Ghifārī, Abū ʿUbaydah ibn Ḥudhayfah, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, and many others.
Those who reported from him include Sulaymān al-Taymī, Shuʿbah, Zāʾidah, al-Thawrī, Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Abū ʿAwānah, Hushaym, Ibn Fuḍayl, Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ,