then he wrote to him, “Put him to death, for he … and indeed he … .” ʿĪsā sought the counsel of Ibn Shubrumah, who said to him, “Did al-Manṣūr (1) mean anyone but you?!” ʿĪsā was the designated heir to the caliphate, so he asked, “What do you advise?” Ibn Shubrumah replied, “Keep him in confinement and write to the caliph that you have killed him.” ʿĪsā did as he suggested. Shortly thereafter his brother ʿAbd Allah came to him and said, “The Commander of the Faithful has written to me ordering me to kill him, and I have done so.” They then returned to Abū Jaʿfar, who said, “He is lying; I shall exact legal retaliation for this.” The case was referred to the judge, and when they pressed ʿĪsā for the facts he produced the man alive before them. Abū Jaʿfar exclaimed, “May God destroy me if I do not kill that Bedouin—meaning Ibn Shubrumah—for ʿĪsā had no part in this affair.” Ibn Shubrumah therefore remained in hiding until he died in Khurāsān, to which ʿĪsā ibn Mūsā had dispatched him.
Ibn Fuḍayl narrated from his father: “Ibn Shubrumah, al-Mughīrah, and al-Ḥārith al-ʿUklī used to stay up late discussing questions of jurisprudence; at times they would not rise until the call to the dawn prayer.”
He died in 144 AH, as dated by Abū Nuʿaym and al-Madāʾinī.
- ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Anṣārī (ʿA)
The erudite ḥāfiẓ, the firmly established authority, Abū Umayyah al-Anṣārī, the client of Banū Saʿd; Medinan by origin, Egyptian by residence; the leading scholar and mufti of Egypt, and a client of Qays ibn Saʿd ibn ʿUbādah.
He was born sometime after 90 AH, during the caliphate of al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik.
He transmitted from: Ibn Abī