and his son al-ʿAbbās as governor of al-Jazīrah, the thughur (border fortresses), and the ʿAwāṣim strongholds. On that very day he gave each of them—and also ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir—five-hundred thousand dinars. No day of greater largesse had ever been seen, for he bestowed upon these three commanders a total of one million, five-hundred thousand dinars.
In that same year:
• He appointed Ghassān ibn ʿAbbād to rule Sind.
• The pilgrimage was led by the same amīr as the previous year.
[Among the notable figures who died this year were]
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dāwūd al-Khuraybī (1);
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd al-Muqriʾ of Basrah (2);
ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā al-ʿAbsī (3);
and ʿAmr ibn Abī Salamah of Damascus (4).
Ibn Khallikān (5), in al-Wafayāt, relates on the authority of some scholars that during this year there also died Ibrāhīm ibn Māhān al-Mawṣilī, the court singer (6); Abū al-ʿAtāhiyah (7); and Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī the grammarian (8), all on the same day in Baghdad. Yet he affirms that Ibrāhīm the court entertainer actually died in 188 AH.
Al-Suhaylī states: In this year ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām, the transmitter of the Prophetic biography, passed away, as Ibn Khallikān (9) reports from him.
(1) Abd Allah b. Dawud b. Amir (Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Hamdani), originally Shuabi, then Kufi and finally Basri. Known as al-Khuraybi for residing in the Khurayba quarter of Basra. An imam, a hafiz (master memorizer of hadith), and model of piety; regarded as reliable, devout, and ascetic. Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala, vol. 9, p. 346.
(2) In al-Usul he is called al-Misri, which the sources confirm. He is Abd Allah b. Yazid b. Abd al-Rahman al-Ahwazi by origin, a Basri who later settled in Mecca. A leading hadith authority, reliable and renowned in Qur’an recitation; he taught the Qur’an for seventy years—thirty-six in Basra and thirty-five in Mecca. Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala, vol. 10, p. 166; Tabaqat al-Qurra, vol. 1, p. 463.
(3) Ubayd Allah b. Musa b. Abi al-Mukhtar bi-Adham (Abu Muhammad al-Absi), their mawla (client), al-Kufi. A hadith scholar and devout ascetic; the first to compile a musnad arranged by Companion in Kufa. Reliable and truthful. Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala, vol. 9, p. 553.
(4) Amr b. Abi Salama (Abu Hafs al-Tinnisi), a mawla of Banu Hashim from Damascus; an imam and siduq (truthful). Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala, vol. 10, p. 213.
(5) Wafayat al-Ayan, vol. 1, p. 43.
(6) The author includes his biography under the events of 188 AH.
(7) The author mentions him in the events of 211 AH.
(8) He is Ishaq b. Murar al-Shaybani (Abu Amr); the author records him among those who died in 210 AH.
(9) Wafayat al-Ayan, vol. 3, p. 177.