with the governorship of al-Jabal. When al-Qāsim withdrew, the Caliph remarked, “I see a youth whose arrow is loosed from a lofty ambition.”

Among his finer verses:
O sleeper who has robbed my eyes of rest,
slumber in bliss; yours is the sweetest repose.
Allah knows how my heart still suffers
the wakefulness your glances have wrought within it.

It is related that on one occasion he scattered vast sums of money and recited:
Enough of my wealth are a coat of mail and a racing steed,
a gleaming white blade of refined steel, and a helmet. (1)

Many tales are told of his liberality and his skill as a horseman. He died in Baghdad in 225 AH, and among his descendants were princes and scholars.

195 – al-ʿAyshī ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥafṣ (Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī)

The Imām, erudite scholar, and reliable authority Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar ibn Mūsā ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Maʿmar, the Qurashī al-Taymī of Baṣra, a truthful traditionist. He was known both as Ibn ʿĀʾisha and as al-ʿAyshī because he traced his lineage to ʿĀʾisha bint Ṭalḥa ibn ʿUbayd Allāh.

He was born sometime after 140 AH.

He heard hadith from Ḥammād ibn Salama, Juwayriya ibn Asmāʾ, Mahdī ibn Maymūn, and Abā