Among those who learned from him were Khalid ibn Barmak and others.

He travelled through various provinces, and his collected epistles come to roughly one hundred quires. People say: the art of official letter-writing began with ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd and ended with Ibn al-ʿAmīd.

He withdrew in defeat while in Marwan’s service; when his master was killed at Busir, he himself was taken prisoner. It is reported that they heated a basin, placed it upon his skull, and that killed him.

Among his disciples was the vizier of al-Mahdi, Yaʿqub ibn Dawud. Muhzim ibn Khalid relates that ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd once told him: “If you want your script to be elegant, lengthen the nib of your pen, make it thick, bevel its point, and angle it to the right.”

He was killed at the end of 132 AH.

208 – ʿAbd al-Malik* ibn Marwan, grandson of the conqueror of al-Andalus, Musa ibn Nusayr al-Lakhmi
An emir distinguished for eloquence, powerful oratory, fairness, and high standing. He governed Egypt on behalf of Marwan ibn Muhammad and administered it with excellence. When the Marwanid state collapsed and Salih ibn ʿAli entered Egypt, he honoured ʿAbd al-Malik in view of his brilliance, then took him to Iraq, where he became one of its leading generals. Later, al-Mansur appointed him over the province of Fars in the early 130s AH.

209 – Naṣr ibn Sayyār, Abū al-Layth al-Marwazī**
Governor of Khurasan, an emir, Abū al-Layth al-Marwazī, deputy of Marwan ibn Muhammad.