110 AH, according to Khalifah ibn Khayyat (1) and a number of other authorities. Khalifah (1) also stated that al-Farazdaq died first and that Jarir followed him only a few months later.
Al-Suli held that they both died in 111 AH, with al-Farazdaq pre-deceasing Jarir by forty days (2).
Al-Kurimi reports—through al-Asmaʿi, from his father—that a man saw Jarir in a dream after his death and asked him, “What has Allah done with you?” He replied, “He forgave me.” The man asked, “On what account?” He answered, “Because of a single takbīr I once proclaimed while out in the desert.” He was then asked, “And what of al-Farazdaq?” He said, “Alas! He was ruined by his slander of chaste women.” Al-Asmaʿi remarked, “He would not leave him alone—neither in life nor in death.”
As for al-Farazdaq (3), his given name was Hammām ibn Ghālib ibn Saʿsaʿah ibn Nājiya ibn ʿIqāl ibn Muḥammad ibn Sufyān ibn Mujāshiʿ ibn Dārim ibn Mālik ibn Ḥanẓala ibn Zayd ibn Manāh ibn Tamīm ibn Murr ibn ʿUdd ibn Ṭābikha. He was Abū Firās ibn Abī Khathal (4) al-Tamīmī of Basra, the celebrated poet known as al-Farazdaq. His grandfather Saʿsaʿah ibn Nājiya was a Companion who came to the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—and who used to rescue infant girls from being buried alive in the pre-Islamic period.
Al-Farazdaq related a report from ʿAlī, saying that he once paid ʿAlī a visit (5) in the company of his father. ʿAlī asked the latter, “Who is this?” He replied, “My son, and he is a poet.” ʿAlī said, “Teach him to read the Quran; that is better for him than poetry.” (6)
Al-Farazdaq also heard hadith from al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī—indeed he saw him as he set out for Iraq—as well as from Abū Hurayrah, Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, ʿArfajah ibn Asʿad, Zurārah ibn Karib, and the poet al-Ṭirimmah ibn ʿAdī.
Among those who transmitted from al-Farazdaq were Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, Marwān al-Aṣfar (7), Ḥajjāj ibn Ḥajjāj al-Aḥwal, and others.
He presented himself before Muʿāwiyah seeking the inheritance of his uncle al-Ḥutāt (8); he also appeared before al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik. Some claim that he visited Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik as well, though this is not reliably established.