Maysur ibn Bakr related to me—he had heard ʿAbd al-Wārith say:
“We went to Shuʿbah and asked, ‘What is your opinion?’
He answered, ‘My view is that you should go out and support him.’
We then approached Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī, but he gave us no reply, so we went to Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah, who said, ‘I see no harm in a man staying in his house; yet if someone bursts in on him, let him fight him.’”

ʿUmar ibn Shabbah reports: Khalād ibn Yazīd told us, “I heard Shuʿbah say, ‘Bakhamrā is the Lesser Badr.’ ”

Abū Nuʿaym said: “When Ibrāhīm was slain, the people of Basra fled by land and by sea; everyone went into hiding. The governor Bashīr al-Raḥḥāl was killed with him, together with many others.”

I (the author) add: When the Khazars perceived the dissension within the ummah, they sallied forth from Bāb al-Abwāb, slaughtered great numbers in Armenia, and carried off the young—Allah alone holds sway. The Husaynids were scattered; Idrīs escaped among them to the farthest reaches of the Maghrib, where his son later rose to power and was then poisoned.

A remnant of the Idrīsids survived and, some years after 400 AH, seized authority. I met one of their descendants, the littérateur Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Idrīsī, who narrated to us from Ibn Bāq.

107 – al-Dībāj, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-ʿUthmānī* (q)
A grandson of the Commander of the Faithful ʿUthmān, a Medinan, nicknamed al-Dībāj (“the Brocade”) because of his handsome appearance.
He was generous, open-handed, possessed of high character, nobility, and dignity.
He transmitted hadith from his mother Fāṭima bint al-Ḥusayn the martyr, from Nāfiʿ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, and others.