166 – Rawḥ ibn Ḥātim ibn Qabīṣah ibn al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrah al-Muhallabī*—
known as Abū Ḥātim—was a distinguished emir, famed for his generosity and valor. He held several important governorships under the caliphs al-Saffāḥ, al-Manṣūr, and others.

He first governed Sind, then Basra. When his brother Yazīd ibn Ḥātim, the governor of the Maghrib, passed away, Hārūn al-Rashīd appointed Rawḥ to succeed him. Rawḥ reached the Maghrib in 171 AH and ruled there for three years.

He died in Ramadan of 174 AH and was buried alongside his brother in Qayrawān.

167 – Al-Hādī, the Caliph, Abū Muḥammad Mūsā ibn al-Mahdī Muḥammad ibn al-Manṣūr ʿAbd Allāh al-Hāshimī al-ʿAbbāsī.**

His father designated him heir apparent, and upon his father’s death he assumed the caliphate while stationed in Jurjān. His brother Hārūn al-Rashīd secured the oath of allegiance for him.

He was fair-skinned, tall, and broad-shouldered, with a slight contraction of the lip. During his childhood a servant was assigned to him; whenever the servant saw him draw up his lip he would say, “Mūsā, close it,” whereupon the boy would comply and press his lip together.

Marwān ibn Abī Ḥafṣah (1) composed a poem about him, part of which reads: