194 – al-Ḥublī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥublī *
The Imām, the martyr, and judge of the city of Barqah, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥublī.

The governor of Barqah came to him and said, “Tomorrow is the ʿĪd.”
He replied, “Not until we see the new crescent. I will not make the people break their fast and then carry their sin.”
The governor answered, “This is what a letter from al-Manṣūr commands.” (It was the practice of the ʿUbaydīs to end the fast on the basis of astronomical calculation, paying no heed to actual sighting.)

The moon was not sighted, yet at dawn the governor appeared with drums, banners, and all the trappings of ʿĪd.
The judge declared, “I shall not come out, nor will I lead the prayer.” The governor therefore ordered another man to deliver the sermon.

He then wrote to al-Manṣūr describing what had happened. Al-Manṣūr summoned the judge, and he was brought before him.
Al-Manṣūr said, “Disavow what you did and I will pardon you.” He refused. Al-Manṣūr thereupon ordered that he be hung in the sun until he died; he kept begging for water, tormented by thirst, but none was given to him.
Afterwards they crucified him on a wooden beam.
So may the curse of Allah fall upon the wrongdoers.

195 – Ḥamzah ibn al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Hāshimī *
The Imām, the exemplar, chief imām of the Manṣūr Congregational Mosque, Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī al-Baghdādī.

He was born in 249 AH.
He learned ḥadīth from Saʿdān ibn Naṣr, ʿĪsā ibn Abī Ḥarb, ʿAbbās al-Tarqafī, and ʿAbbās al-Dūrī.