formerly it was known as Dar al-Hijarah, east of the congregational mosque.
He was counted among the nobles, endowed with learning, merit, habitual fasting, and authority.
Ibn Khallikān, in his biography of him, says: “He was one of the most learned men of Quraysh in the various branches of knowledge. He was especially proficient in these two sciences—medicine and alchemy—and he composed elegant verse.”
135 – Khalid, son of the caliph Yazid ibn al-Walid ibn ʿAbd al-Malik. Marwan al-Himār had him crucified.
136 – Khalid ibn Yazid ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ṣubayḥ, Abū Hāshim al-Murri *
He narrated from his grandfather, from Makḥūl, and from Yūnus ibn Maysarah, and he studied Qurʾanic recitation under Ibn ʿĀmir.
Those who transmitted from him include his son ʿIrāk, Muḥammad ibn Shuʿayb ibn Shābūr, Abū Mushir, Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād, and others.
Abū Ḥātim deemed him trustworthy.