so he said, “Al-Mahdī asked me, ‘Abū ʿAbd Allāh, do you own a house?’ I replied, ‘No.’ He thereupon ordered that three thousand dinars be given to me.
It is also said that he endowed ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mājishūn with ten thousand dinars. Ibn al-Anbārī, citing his chain of narration, reports that al-Mahdī once granted a man one hundred thousand dinars. Gifts of this scale were frequent with him. On another occasion he rewarded Marwān ibn Abī Ḥafṣah with seventy thousand.
Such extravagance is not something for which an imam is to be commended. He was infatuated (1) with his freedwoman al-Khayzurān and, like other kings, was submerged in an ocean of pleasures, amusement, and hunting; yet he feared Allah, was hostile to the people of misguidance, and detested them.
He ruled for ten years, one month, and half a month; he lived forty-three years; he died at Māsabadhān (2) in Muḥarram of the year 169 AH (3), after which his son al-Hādī received the pledge of allegiance.

148 – al-Naḍr ibn ʿArabī al-Bāhilī, their client * (D, T)
An imam, scholar, ḥadīth transmitter, and reliable authority; Abū Rūḥ—some say Abū ʿUmar—al-Bāhilī, their client, from the Jazīrah region, originally of Ḥarrān.
He saw Abū al-Ṭufayl ʿĀmir ibn Wāthilah and narrated from Mujāhid, al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, ʿIkrimah, ʿAṭāʾ, Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh, and ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz,