from Basra whose knowledge was deficient. He was known as Ma‘bad ibn Khālid, or, according to another account, Ma‘bad ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Uwaymir. He died after the defeat; he had been with Ibn al-Ash‘ath at the time and had suffered a wound. He was the first to propound this teaching concerning divine decree, and it was he whom ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Umar ibn al-Khattāb disavowed. It was then propounded