He went on to sever his head. Then Bukayr ibn Wishāḥ arrived, wishing to take the head, but Bujayr ibn Waraqāʾ barred him from it. Bukayr struck him with a mace, put him in fetters, took the head, and dispatched it to ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān together with a letter announcing victory and triumph. ʿAbd al-Malik rejoiced greatly and wrote back to Bukayr ibn Wishāḥ confirming him in the deputy-governorship of Khurasan.
In the same year Medina was wrested from Ibn al-Zubayr’s lieutenants, and ʿAbd al-Malik appointed Ṭāriq ibn ʿAmr—whom he had earlier sent as reinforcement for al-Ḥajjāj—as governor there. (1)
Here follows the biographical notice of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khāzim (2):
He is ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khāzim ibn Asmāʾ al-Sulamī, Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Baṣrī, governor of Khurasan, one of the renowned warriors and celebrated horsemen.
Our teacher, the ḥadith master Abū al-Ḥajjāj al-Mizzī, says in his Tahdhīb (3): “It is said that he was a Companion.”
He transmitted from the Prophet ﷺ the report concerning the black turban; the hadith is recorded by Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and al-Nasāʾī, (4) though they did not mention him by name.
Among those who narrated from him are Saʿd ibn ʿUthmān al-Rāzī and Saʿīd ibn al-Azraq.
Abū Bishr (5) al-Dūlābī reported that he was killed in the year 71 AH; it has also been said that it occurred in 87 AH, but this latter view holds no weight. This concludes what our teacher recorded in the Tahdhīb.
The ḥadith scholar Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Athīr, in al-Ghābah fī Asmāʾ al-Ṣaḥābah (6), writes: “ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khāzim ibn Asmāʾ ibn al-Ṣalt ibn Ḥabīb ibn Ḥārithah ibn Hilāl ibn Samāk ibn ʿAwf ibn Imruʾl-Qays ibn Nahiyah (7) ibn Sulaym ibn Manṣūr, Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sulamī, governor of Khurasan, a famed warrior and celebrated hero. Saʿīd ibn al-Azraq and Saʿd ibn ʿUthmān narrated from him. It is said that he was a Companion. He conquered Sarakhs and governed Khurasan during the troubles of Ibn al-Zubayr; he first assumed authority there in 64 AH, after the deaths of Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiyah and his son Muʿāwiyah. Many battles befell him until his rule there was firmly established. We have treated his exploits in detail in al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh. He was killed in 71 AH.”