and over Medina was Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm—the very man who led the people in pilgrimage that year. ʿUmar removed ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Wadāʿah from the governorship of Egypt and appointed Ayyūb ibn Shurahbīl in his place, entrusting the issuing of legal rulings to Jaʿfar ibn Rabīʿah, Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, and ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī Jaʿfar; these were the scholars who delivered fatwas to the public. Over Ifrīqiyah and the lands of the Maghrib he set Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Makhzūmī, a governor of commendable conduct. During his tenure vast numbers of Berbers in the Maghrib embraced Islam. Allah—glorified and exalted be He—knows best. (1)

Among the eminent figures who died this year were:

• al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah (2), a distinguished Tābiʿī. It is said that he was the first to speak of irjāʾ (postponing judgment on a person’s faith). As noted earlier, Abū ʿUbayd held that he died in the year 95 AH. Khalīfah recorded his death during the caliphate of ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, while our teacher al-Dhahabī stated in al-Iʿlām that he passed away this very year. Allah knows best.

• Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān, as mentioned above.

• ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muhayriz (3) ibn Junādah ibn ʿUbayd (4), the Jumahī Qurashī from Mecca who resided in Jerusalem, a venerable Tābiʿī. He narrated from his step-father (5) Abū Maḥdhūrah—the muʾadhdhin—as well as from ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit, Abū Saʿīd, Muʿāwiyah, and others. Narrators from him include Khālid ibn Maʿdān, Makḥūl, Ḥassān ibn ʿAṭiyyah, al-Zuhrī, and many more. Several authorities declared him reliable, and many leading scholars praised him. Ragāʾ ibn Ḥaywah said, “If the people of Madinah boast of their worshipper Ibn ʿUmar, we in turn boast of our worshipper ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muhayriz.” One of his children related: “He would complete a recitation of the Qur’an every Friday. A bed would be made for him, yet he would not sleep on it.”