It has reached us that Yazīd ibn Mazyad was presented with a slave-girl; after consummating the marriage he died upon her breast at Baradha (1) in 185 AH, leaving behind his two princely sons, Khālid and Muḥammad. Muslim [ibn al-Walīd] composed some exquisite odes in his honor.
20 – Abū Muʿāwiyah Muḥammad ibn Khāzim al-Saʿdī al-Kūfī * (ʿ)
A client of Banū Saʿd ibn Zayd Manāt ibn Tamīm, he was an imam, ḥāfiẓ, and authoritative proof—Abū Muʿāwiyah al-Saʿdī, the Kufan, the Blind, one of the luminaries.
Aḥmad and several others said: “He was born in 113 AH.”
He went blind at the age of four, and his family held a mourning gathering for him—so reported Abū Dāwūd. Others maintain that he lost his sight when he was eight.
He transmitted hadith from: Hishām ibn ʿUrwah; ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī; al-Aʿmash; Suhayl; Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid; Burayd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Burda; Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar; Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī; Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī; Muḥammad ibn Sūqah;