Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2895
Then the year 155 AH began
زَبَّانُ بْنُ فَائِدٍ، أَبُو جُوَيْنٍ الْحَمْرَاوِيُّ: كَانَ عَلَى الْمَظَالِمِ بِمِصْرَ، وَهُوَ آخِرُ مَنْ وَلِيَ لِبَنِي أُمَيَّةَ، وَكَانَ فَاضِلًا مِنْ أَعْدَلِ وُلَاتِهِمْ. رَوَى عَنْهُ اللَّيْثُ، وَابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، وَرِشْدِينُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ. وَتُوُفِّيَ فِي هَذِهِ السَّنَةِ. أَبُو هَاشِمٍ الزَّاهِدُ: مِنْ قُدَمَاءِ زُهَّادِ بَغْدَادَ وَمِنْ أَقْرَانِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْبَرَاثِيِّ. كَانَ سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ يَقُولُ: مَا زِلْتُ أُرَائِي وَأَنَا لَا أَشْعُرُ حَتَّى جَالَسْتُ أَبَا هَاشِمٍ الزَّاهِدَ، فَأَخَذْتُ مِنْهُ تَرْكَ الرِّيَاءِ. وَكَانَ أَبُو هَاشِمٍ يَقُولُ: أَخْذُ الْمَرْءِ نَفْسَهُ بِحُسْنِ الْأَدَبِ تَأْدِيبُ أَهْلِهِ. قَالَ: مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ،: حَدَّثَنِي بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِنَا، قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو هَاشِمٍ الزَّاهِدُ: إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى وَسَمَ الدُّنْيَا بِالْوَحْشَةِ لِيَكُونَ أُنْسُ الْمُرِيدِينَ بِهِ دُونَهَا لِيُقْبِلَ الْمُطِيعُونَ لَهُ بِالْإِعْرَاضِ عَنْهَا، فَأَهْلُ الْمَعْرِفَةِ بِاللَّهِ مُسْتَوْحِشُونَ وَإِلَى الْآخِرَةِ مُشْتَاقُونَ. قَالَ: حَكِيمُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ،: نَظَرَ هَاشِمٌ إِلَى شَرِيكٍ الْقَاضِي يَخْرُجُ مِنْ دَارِ يَحْيَى بْنِ خَالِدٍ فَبَكَى وَقَالَ: أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنْ عِلْمٍ لَا يَنْفَعُ. وَفِيهَا تُوُفِّيَ صَفْوَانُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، وَعُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي الْعَاتِكَةِ الدِّمَشْقِيَّانِ، وَعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَطَاءٍ، وَحَمَّادٌ الرَّاوِيَةُ ، وَهُوَ ابْنُ أَبِي لَيْلَى مَيْسَرَةُ - وَيُقَالُ: سَابُورُ - بْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ الدَّيْلِمِيُّ الْكُوفِيُّ، مَوْلَى مُكْنِفِ بْنِ زَيْدِ الْخَيْلِ الطَّائِيِّ، كَانَ مِنْ أَعْلَمِ النَّاسِ بِأَيَّامِ الْعَرَبِ وَأَخْبَارِهَا وَأَشْعَارِهَا وَلُغَاتِهَا، وَهُوَ الَّذِي جَمَعَ السَّبْعَ الْمُعَلَّقَاتِ الطِّوَالَ، وَإِنَّمَا سُمِّي الرَّاوِيَةَ; لِكَثْرَةِ رِوَايَتِهِ الشِّعْرَ عَنِ الْعَرَبِ، اخْتَبَرَهُ الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَأَنْشَدَهُمْ تِسْعًا وَعِشْرِينَ قَصِيدَةً عَلَى حُرُوفِ الْمُعْجَمِ، كُلُّ قَصِيدَةٍ نَحْوٌ مَنْ مِائَةِ بَيْتٍ، وَزَعَمَ أَنَّهُ لَا يُسَمَّى شَاعِرٌ مِنْ شُعَرَاءِ الْعَرَبِ إِلَّا أَنْشَدَ لَهُ مَا لَا يَحْفَظُهُ غَيْرُهُ، فَأَطْلَقَ لَهُ مِائَةَ أَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ. وَذَكَرَ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَرِيرِيُّ فِي كِتَابِهِ " دُرَّةِ الْغَوَّاصِ "، أَنَّ هِشَامَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ اسْتَدْعَاهُ مِنَ الْعِرَاقِ مِنْ نَائِبِهِ يُوسُفَ بْنِ عُمَرَ، فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ إِذَا هُوَ فِي دَارٍ قَوْرَاءَ مُرَخَّمَةٍ بِالرُّخَامِ وَالذَّهَبِ، وَإِذَا عِنْدَهُ جَارِيَتَانِ حَسْنَاوَانِ جِدًّا، فَاسْتَنْشَدَهُ شَيْئًا فَأَنْشَدَهُ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: سَلْ حَاجَتَكَ. فَقَالَ: كَائِنَةً مَا كَانَتْ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ؟ فَقَالَ: وَمَا هِيَ؟ قَالَ: تُطْلِقُ لِي إِحْدَى هَاتَيْنِ الْجَارِيَتَيْنِ. فَقَالَ: هُمَا لَكَ وَمَا عَلَيْهِمَا. وَأَخْلَاهُ فِي بَعْضِ دَارِهِ، وَأَطْلَقَ لَهُ أَلْفَ دِرْهَمٍ. هَذَا مُلَخَّصُ الْحِكَايَةِ، وَالظَّاهِرُ أَنَّ هَذَا الْخَلِيفَةَ إِنَّمَا هُوَ الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، فَإِنَّهُ ذُكِرَ أَنَّهُ شَرِبَ مَعَهُ، وَهِشَامٌ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَشْرَبُ، وَلَمْ يَكُنْ نَائِبَهُ عَلَى الْعِرَاقِ يُوسُفُ بْنُ عُمَرَ، وَإِنَّمَا كَانَ خَالِدَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْقَسْرِيَّ، وَبَعْدَهُ يُوسُفُ بْنُ عُمَرَ. وَكَانَتْ وَفَاةُ حَمَّادٍ فِي هَذِهِ السَّنَةِ عَنْ سِتِّينَ سَنَةً. قَالَ ابْنُ خِلِّكَانَ وَقِيلَ: إِنَّهُ أَدْرَكَ أَوَّلَ خِلَافَةِ الْمَهْدِيِّ فِي سَنَةِ ثَمَانٍ وَخَمْسِينَ. فَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ. وَفِيهَا قُتِلَ حَمَّادُ عَجْرَدٍ عَلَى الزَّنْدَقَةِ، وَهُوَ حَمَّادُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ يُوسُفَ بْنِ كُلَيْبٍ الْكُوفِيُّ، وَيُقَالُ: إِنَّهُ وَاسِطِيٌّ. مَوْلَى بَنِي سُوَاءَةَ، وَكَانَ شَاعِرًا مَاجِنًا ظَرِيفًا خَلِيعًا، لَكِنَّهُ كَانَ مُتَّهَمًا عَلَى الْإِسْلَامِ، وَقَدْ أَدْرَكَ الدَّوْلَتَيْنِ الْأُمَوِيَّةَ وَالْعَبَّاسِيَّةَ، وَلَكِنَّهُ مَا اشْتُهِرَ إِلَّا فِي أَيَّامِ بَنِي الْعَبَّاسِ، وَكَانَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ بَشَّارِ بْنِ بُرْدٍ مُهَاجَاةٌ كَثِيرَةٌ، وَلَمَّا قُتِلَ بِشَّارٌ عَلَى الزَّنْدَقَةِ أَيْضًا، دُفِنَ مَعَهُ فِي قَبْرِهِ، وَقِيلَ: إِنَّ حَمَّادَ عَجْرَدٍ مَاتَ سَنَةَ ثَمَانٍ وَخَمْسِينَ. وَقِيلَ: سَنَةَ إِحْدَى وَسِتِّينَ وَمِائَةٍ. فَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ.
Translation
✧ Zabbān b. Fāʾid, Abū Juwayn al-Ḥamrāwī: He was in charge of the maẓālim (grievance courts) in Egypt, and he was the last to hold office for the Umayyads. He was virtuous, one of the most just of their governors. Al-Layth, Ibn Lahīʿah, and Rishdīn b. Saʿd narrated from him. He died in this year. Abū Hāshim al-Zāhid: One of the early ascetics of Baghdad and a contemporary of Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Barāthī. Sufyān al-Thawrī used to say: I continued to show off without realizing it until I sat with Abū Hāshim al-Zāhid, and I learned from him to abandon hypocrisy. Abū Hāshim used to say: A man's disciplining himself with good manners is the disciplining of his family. He said: Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan said: One of our companions narrated to me, saying: Abū Hāshim al-Zāhid said: God Almighty branded this world with desolation so that the intimacy of seekers would be with Him rather than with it, and so that the obedient to Him would turn away from it. Thus the people of knowledge of God feel estranged and yearn for the Hereafter. He said: Ḥakīm b. Jaʿfar said: Hāshim looked at Sharīk the judge coming out of the house of Yaḥyā b. Khālid and wept, saying: I seek refuge in God from knowledge that does not benefit. In this year died Ṣafwān b. ʿAmr and ʿUthmān b. Abī al-ʿĀtikah, both of Damascus, and ʿUthmān b. ʿAṭāʾ, and Ḥammād al-Rāwiyah , who was Ibn Abī Laylā Maysarah—also said to be Sābūr—b. al-Mubārak b. ʿUbayd al-Daylamī al-Kūfī, a client of Muknif b. Zayd al-Khayl al-Ṭāʾī. He was one of the most knowledgeable people about the battle-days of the Arabs, their histories, their poetry, and their dialects. He it was who compiled the seven long Muʿallaqāt. He was called al-Rāwiyah (the transmitter) because of his abundant transmission of poetry from the Arabs. Al-Walīd b. Yazīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik, the Commander of the Faithful, tested him, and he recited to them twenty-nine odes on the letters of the alphabet, each ode approximately one hundred verses. He claimed that no poet among the Arab poets could be named without him reciting for him what no one else knew by heart. So he gave him a hundred thousand dirhams. Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥarīrī mentioned in his book "Durrat al-Ghawwāṣ" that Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik summoned him from Iraq through his deputy Yūsuf b. ʿUmar. When he entered his presence, he found himself in a round hall paved with marble and gold, and with him were two extremely beautiful slave girls. He asked him to recite something, so he recited. Then he said to him: Ask for your need. He said: Whatever it may be, O Commander of the Faithful? He said: And what is it? He said: That you give me one of these two slave girls. He said: They are yours and whatever is on them. And he lodged him in one part of his palace and gave him a thousand dirhams. This is the summary of the story, and it is evident that this caliph was indeed al-Walīd b. Yazīd, for it is mentioned that he drank with him, while Hishām did not drink, and his deputy over Iraq was not Yūsuf b. ʿUmar but Khālid b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Qasrī, and after him Yūsuf b. ʿUmar. Ḥammād's death occurred in this year at the age of sixty. Ibn Khillikān said, and it was also said: He lived until the beginning of al-Mahdī's caliphate in the year fifty-eight. God knows best. In this year Ḥammād ʿAjrad was killed for heresy (zandaqah). He was Ḥammād b. ʿUmar b. Yūsuf b. Kulayb al-Kūfī, also said to be from Wāsiṭ. He was a client of Banū Suwāʾah. He was a libertine poet, witty, and dissolute, but he was accused of heresy against Islam. He lived through both the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties, but he became famous only in the days of the Abbasids. There was much poetic invective between him and Bashshār b. Burd. When Bashshār was also killed for heresy, he was buried with him in his grave. It is also said that Ḥammād ʿAjrad died in the year fifty-eight, and another saying: in the year one hundred sixty-one. God knows best.
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