—namely the commanders—so he fled to Baghdad and went into hiding.

Al-Buḥturī and other poets praised him in verse. Al-Kawkabī relates that a number of poets lauded the vizier Abū Ṣāliḥ, whereupon he ordered that they be given no more than three dirhams and wrote to them:

The worth of your poetry, to me, is but one dirham—
and I have even added a second;
A third pays for your sheets of paper,
so be gone—you have already secured your booty.

The vizier Ibn Yazdād died in Rajab, 261 AH.

138 – ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bishr ibn al-Ḥakam al-ʿAbdī (B, M, D, Q)

The son of Ḥabīb ibn Mihrān, he was a ḥadith scholar, ḥāfiẓ, generous, trustworthy, and an imām. Abū Muḥammad, the son of Imām Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿAbdī, was from Nīshāpūr.

Al-Abarqūhī reported to us; Akmal al-ʿAlawī reported to us; Saʿīd ibn al-Bannāʾ reported to us; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad reported to us; Muḥammad ibn Zunbūr reported to us; Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd reported to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bishr narrated to us; Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥakīm narrated to me; al-Ḥakam ibn Abān narrated to me, from Abū Hārūn al-ʿUmānī, from Abū ’l-Shaʿthāʾ, from Ibn ʿAbbās:

From the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): “Gabriel informed him that Allah has decreed—or he said: Allah has said—that a servant’s good deeds and misdeeds will be brought on the Day of Resurrection, some of them offset against others. If even a single good deed remains, Paradise will be expanded for him as far as Allah wills.” (1)