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65 – The judge Abū al-Qāsim informed us; Abū ʿAlī narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; ʿUmar ibn Bukayr informed me, from Hishām ibn Muḥammad, who said: a man from Banī Tamīm related to me that al-ʿUryān ibn al-Haytham al-Nakhaʿī came to ʿAttāb ibn Warqāʾ al-Tamīmī while he was governor of Isfahān and said:
[Basīṭ metre]
We have come to you, not driven by some passing need,
Nor by obligations owed, nor favors to repay;
But because you are the finest of Iraq’s governors—
Though people say, “Ibn Warqāʾ is a rain-cloud with constant showers.”
If you are generous, it is only what you always do;
And if some hindrance arises, we shall depart and lay no blame.
He (the narrator) said: So ʿAttāb gave him one hundred thousand dirhams.
٦٥ - أَخْبَرَنَا الْقَاضِي أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، أَخْبَرَنِي عُمَرُ بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ، حَدَّثَنِي رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي تَمِيمٍ قَالَ: أَتَى الْعُرْيَانُ بْنُ الْهَيْثَمِ النَّخَعِيُّ عَتَّابَ بْنَ وَرْقَاءَ التَّمِيمِيَّ وَهُوَ عَلَى أَصْبَهَانَ فَقَالَ:
[البحر البسيط]
إِنَّا أَتَيْنَاكَ لَا مِنْ حَاجَةٍ عَرَضَتْ ... وَلَا فُرُوضٍ تُجَازِيهَا وَلَا نِعَمِ
إِلَّا خَيْرَ عُمَّالِ الْعِرَاقِ وَإِنْ ... قِيلَ ابْنُ وَرْقَاءَ غَيْثٌ صَائِبُ الدِّيَمِ
فَإِنْ تَجُدْ فَهُوَ شَيْءٌ كُنْتَ تَفْعَلُهُ ... وَإِنْ تَكُنْ عِلَّةٌ نَرْجِعْ وَلَمْ نَلُمِ
قَالَ: فَأَعْطَاهُ مِائَةَ أَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ