The Azdī youth’s ambition is to squander his wealth,
whereas the Qaysī youth’s concern is to hoard up his dirhams.
Let not the stammerer imagine that I have lampooned him;
I have only preferred the people of noble qualities.
Yazīd ibn Ḥātim died in the Maghrib during Ramaḍān of the year 170 AH, appointing his son Dāwūd to succeed him there.
47 – His brother: the commander Rawḥ ibn Ḥātim *
He likewise governed the Maghrib; later he returned and was appointed over Kūfa and Basra. A champion no less valiant than his brother, he also held the governorship of Sind.
He died in 174 AH, and many reports relate his outstanding generosity.
48 – Ayyūb ibn Jābir al-Suḥaymī al-Yamāmī ** (D, T)
The jurist and hadith scholar, Abū Sulaymān.
He studied with the Kufans: Ādam ibn ʿAlī, Ḥammād the jurist, Simāk ibn Ḥarb, and a number of others.