and from him: his son Jaʿfar, ʿĀfiyah the judge, Muḥammad ibn Rāshid al-Makḥūlī, al-Aṣmaʿī, and his daughter Zaynab bint Sulaymān.

He was counted among the most generous of men. It is said that on the afternoon of ʿArafah he would set free one hundred slaves. On another occasion his seasonal gifts are reported to have reached five million dirhams.

He governed Basra for a time. He used to dye his hair, for it had already gone grey when he was only twenty years old.

It is related that while he was on the palace roof he heard a group of women saying, “If only the governor would look upon us and enrich us!” So he cast down to them jewels and gold.

He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 142 AH. He was the father of the two princes Muḥammad and Jaʿfar.

78 – Ḥumayd ibn Abī Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl al-Basrī * (ʿ)
An imām, ḥāfiẓ, and the Basran scholar Abū ʿUbaydah; he was the client of Ṭalḥah al-Ṭalḥāt, though some say the client of Salamah, and other opinions exist.

Concerning his father’s name, the most common view is Tairawayh; others say Tair; still others hold it was Zādawayh—or, more precisely, Ibn Zādawayh.

He was a shaykh with relatively few narrations. Ibn ʿAwn transmitted from him, and he himself also related from Anas.

Some maintain that Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl’s father was named Dāwar, Mihrān, Ṭarkhān, Makhlad, or ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.

He was born in 68 AH, the year Ibn ʿAbbās passed away.

He heard hadith from Anas ibn Mālik, al-Ḥasan, Abū al-Mutawakkil, ʿIkrimah, and Mūsā ibn Anas.