He replied, “It is yours, O Commander of the Believers!”
Maʿn’s exploits in generosity, toughness, and bravery are well known, and he produced worthy poetry.
Subsequently he was appointed over Sijistān. While he was undergoing cupping therapy, a band of Khārijites attacked and killed him. His nephew, the emir Yazīd ibn Mazīd (1), retaliated and killed them in the year 152 AH (2). Others say it took place in 158 AH.
43 – Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim ibn Zayd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shujāʿ al-Azdī * (ʿ)
An imām, ḥāfiẓ, reliable authority, and long-lived scholar—Abū al-Naḍr al-Azdī, later al-ʿAtakī, from Baṣrah.
He narrated from: al-Ḥasan, Ibn Sīrīn, Abū Rajāʾ al-ʿAṭāridī—his senior-most shaykh, and his transmissions from him appear in both Ṣaḥīḥ collections—Nāfiʿ the client of Ibn ʿUmar, Abū Fazārah al-ʿAbsī, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, Ibn Abī Mulaykah, Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Ṭāwūs, Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, his paternal uncle Jarīr ibn Yazīd, Zubayd al-Yāmī, Abū Isḥāq, Zayd ibn Aslam, Jamīl ibn Murrah, Thābit, Ayyūb, al-Zubayr ibn al-Ḥurayth, al-Zubayr ibn Saʿīd al-Hāshimī, Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, and Asmāʾ ibn
(1) Yazid ibn Mazyad was one of the best-known Umayyad-era governors and a celebrated military commander. He first ruled over Armenia, but Harun al-Rashid removed him from that post in 172 AH (788 CE). The caliph reinstated him in 183 AH (799 CE) and added Azerbaijan to his province. Yazid is also the general who slew the Kharijite rebel al-Walid ibn Tarif and scattered his forces. See: Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-aʿyan, vol. 6, pp. 327-330.
(2) For the narrative, see Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-aʿyan, vol. 5, p. 249.
(*) Principal biographical sources: Khalifah, Tabaqat, p. 223; Khalifah, Tarikh, pp. 16, 448; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-kabir, 2:213-214; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-saghir, 2:25, 181; Ibn Qutaybah, al-Maʿarif, p. 502; Ibn Hibban, al-Duʿafaʾ (ms.), p. 70; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-taʿdil, 2:504-505; Ibn Saʿd, Mashahir ʿulamaʾ al-amsar, p. 159; Ibn ʿAdi, al-Kamil (ms.), pp. 93-96; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-kamal (ms.), p. 190; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-tahdhib (ms.), 1:140; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-huffaz, 1:199-200; al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-iʿtidal, 1:392-393; al-Dhahabi, ʿIbar, 1:258; Ibn al-Jazari, Tabaqat al-qurraʾ, 1:190; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-tahdhib, 2:69-72; Ibn Hajar, Tabaqat al-mudallisin, p. 5; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-huffaz, pp. 85-86; al-Khazraji, Khulasat tadhhib al-kamal, p. 61; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharāt al-dhahab, 1:270 (events of 169 AH).