—the one who had risen in revolt against al-Manṣūr (1). He also governed the province of Fars and was famed for his generosity and praised by many. It is reported that Hārūn al-Rashīd placed his estate under sequestration and found that it totalled fifty thousand thousand dirhams. Al-Khaṭīb said: “He was a great man among his people,” and it is related that when death approached he exclaimed, “Would that my mother had never borne me, and would that I had been a porter!” He was soft-hearted. He died in 173 AH.

53 – Rābiʿah al-ʿAdawiyyah, Umm ʿAmr, daughter of Ismāʿīl al-ʿAtakiyyah, of Basra—the ascetic, the devotee, the humble worshipper. Umm ʿAmr Rābiʿah bint Ismāʿīl; her patronage (walāʾ) was with the ʿAtakiyyīn. Ibn al-Jawzī devoted a separate tract (juzʾ) to her life.

Khālid ibn Khidāsh said: Rābiʿah once heard Ṣāliḥ al-Murrī mention worldly matters in his preaching, so she called out to him, “O Ṣāliḥ, whoever loves a thing mentions it often.”

Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Burjulānī reported: Bishr ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿAtakī told us that a group sought permission to visit Rābiʿah, and among them was Sufyān al-Thawrī, and in her presence they began exchanging words of admonition,