(1) Among the distinguished figures who died in this year were:
Khalid ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Yazid (2) ibn Asad ibn Kurz ibn ʿAmir ibn ʿAbqari, Abū al-Haytham al-Bajali al-Qasri al-Dimashqi. He was governor of Mecca and the Hijaz for al-Walid and then for Sulayman, and governor of the two Iraqs for Hisham for fifteen years.
Ibn ʿAsakir said: His house in Damascus was in Murabbaʿat al-Qazz (3), today known as the residence of al-Sharif al-Yazidi; the bathhouse inside Bab Tuma is likewise attributed to him.
He narrated—from his father, from his grandfather—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him:
“O Asad, do you love Paradise?”
He replied, “Yes.”
The Prophet said, “Then love for the Muslims what you love for yourself.”
Abū Yaʿlā reported this ḥadīth (4) through ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah, from Hushaym, from Sayyār Abū al-Ḥakam (5), who said that he heard Khalid recite it from the pulpit (6).
Those who transmitted from Khalid include Ismaʿil ibn Awsat, Ismaʿil ibn Abī Khalid, Ḥabīb ibn Abī Ḥabīb, and Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl. It is also related that he reported—from his grandfather, from the Prophet ﷺ—concerning illness as an expiation of sins (7). His mother was a Christian; Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyash listed him among the notable men whose mothers were Christian.
Al-Madaʾinī said: The first incident in which his leadership became evident was when he ran over a boy in Damascus with his horse. He carried the boy, summoned a group of people, and had them testify that he was the one who had struck him, so that if the boy died, the blood money would be due from him (8).
= The unlettered one, and upon his family and companions be abundant peace. Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs; Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs; Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs. The best Protector and the best Helper.
(1) At the beginning of the second page of this volume in the H manuscript is the following: “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. O Lord, make it easy and assist, O Generous One; and conclude with a blessing of well-being.”
(2) His biography appears in al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr (vol. 3, p. 158); al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl (vol. 3, p. 340); al-Aghānī (vol. 22, pp. 5, 29); Tārīkh Ibn al-Athīr (vol. 5, pp. 124, 276 ff.); Bughyat al-Ṭālib fī Tārīkh Ḥalab (vol. 7, p. 3068 ff.); Wifāyāt al-Aʿyān (vol. 2, p. 226); Tahdhīb al-Kamāl (vol. 8, p. 107); and Shadharāt al-Dhahab (vol. 1, p. 169).
(3) It is said that this square lies near the lower margin; see ad-Dāris (vol. 1, p. 431).
(4) In the Q manuscript the phrase “from Sayyār from Abu al-Ḥakam” is a corruption, for Sayyār is Abu al-Ḥakam; the correct reading is attested in the B and H manuscripts and by the hadith authentication sources.
(5) In his Musnad, hadith no. 911.
(6) It was transmitted by ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad in his Ziyādāt ʿalā Musnad Abīhi (vol. 4, p. 70); by Abū al-Ḥusayn b. Qāniʿ in Maʿjam al-Ṣaḥāba (vol. 1, p. 42); and by al-Ḥākim in al-Mustadrak (vol. 4, p. 186, no. 7313), classified as ḥasan (good).
(7) It is also reported by ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad in Ziyādāt on his father’s Musnad (vol. 4, p. 70) and by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (no. 1002), likewise classified as ḥasan.
(8) In the H manuscript: “awṭā dhammīyyan.”