He would also attend the singing sessions from behind a curtain—as Ardashir once did—and then lavish rewards upon the performers.

When Marwān al-Ḥimār’s severed head was brought to him, he fell in prostration to Allah and said, “We have taken vengeance for al-Ḥusayn and his family; for their sake we have slain two hundred men of the Umayyads.”

It is further reported that al-Saffāḥ granted ʿAbd Allah ibn Ḥasan ibn Ḥasan two million dirhams.

19 – ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Mālik, Abū Saʿīd al-Jazarī al-Ḥarrānī*

An imam and hadith master, the leading scholar of al-Jazīra. He was Abū Saʿīd al-Jazarī, al-Ḥarrānī, a client of the Umayyads whose ancestral home was the town of Istakhr.

He saw Anas ibn Mālik and is counted among the younger generation of the Successors.

He transmitted hadith from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, Ṭāwūs, Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, Mujāhid ibn Jabr, ʿIkrima, and several others.

Among those who narrated from him are Ibn Jurayj, Shuʿba, Maʿmar, Furāt al-Qazzāz, Sufyān al-Thawrī, Mālik ibn Anas, Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna, and many more besides them.

We have related—through the chains of al-Shāfiʿī, al-Qaʿnabī, Abū Muṣʿab, and Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr—from Mālik, from ʿAbd al-Karīm, from Ibn Abī Laylā, from Kaʿb ibn ʿUjra the hadith: (