2790 – ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar narrated to us; he said: Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us; he said: Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣalt narrated to us; he said: al-Naḍr ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bajalī narrated to us, from Mujālid, from al-Shaʿbī, who said:
“The master strategists are four: Muʿāwiyah, for his deliberation and forbearance; ʿAmr, for his shrewdness in war; al-Mughīrah, for untangling the most intractable difficulties; and Ziyād, for managing matters both great and small.”