A number of the Successors and others narrated from him. He was a scholar, a devoted worshipper, and an ascetic; nevertheless, some people spoke against him because he had taken a pouch from the public treasury without the ruler’s permission. They censured him, impugned his reputation (1), abandoned his narrations, and even composed verses of poetry about him (2); among those who did so were Shuʿbah and others. It is also said that he stole additional items—Allah knows best. Yet other authorities declared him reliable (3); Allah knows best.

[Then the year 113 AH began]

In that year Muʿāwiyah ibn Hishām campaigned against the Byzantine lands from the direction of Marʿash. During the same year a group of the Abbasid propagandists (duʿāt) entered Khurasan and spread throughout it; the governor seized one of them and killed him, threatening the rest with the same fate. That year as well, Maslamah ibn ʿAbd al-Malik penetrated deep into the territories of the Turks, killing great numbers and many scattered tribes, until he slew the son of Khāqān, conquered numerous regions, and brought the kingdoms in the vicinity of Balanjar (4) and its dependencies under his sway.

That same year the leader of the pilgrimage was Sulaymān ibn Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, according to al-Wāqidī and Abū Maʿshar. Ibn Jarīr, citing others, says that the pilgrimage was led by Ibrāhīm ibn Hishām ibn Ismāʿīl al-Makhzūmī; Allah knows best (5).

The provincial deputies were the same as those named for the preceding year.

Among the notable figures who died in that year, Ibn Jarīr states (6) that the following met their end:

• The commander ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Bukht (7): he was with ʿAbd Allah al-Baṭṭāl in Byzantine territory when he was slain and granted martyrdom. This is his biography,