Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

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• ʿAṭiyyah al-ʿAwfī:
Ibn Saʿd 2 states, “ʿAṭiyyah joined the revolt of Ibn al-Ashʿath. Hence Ḥajjāj
wrote to Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim 3 ordering to offer him to revile ʿAlī
I. And if he refuses, then to hit him four hundred lashes and shave
his beard. He thus summoned him but he refused. So he carried out the
instructions of Ḥajjāj on him.” 4
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• Miṣdaʿal-Maʿarqab:
1 ʿAṭiyyah ibn Saʿd ibn Junādah al-ʿAwfī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kūfī. A successor who had Shīʿī leanings.
Ibn Ḥajar has said, “He was an average narrator who used to err a lot. He was a Shīʿī and would
practice Tadlīs.” He died in 111 A.H. His narrations appear in the al-Adab al-Mufrad of al-Bukhārī and
the Sunans of Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī and Ibn Mājah. See: al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā 6/304; Ḍuʿafāʾ al-ʿUqaylī
3/359; Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 20/145; Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb p. 393.
2 Muḥammad ibn Saʿd ibn Manīʿ al-Hāshimī, their client, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Baṣrī. A retainer of
ḥadīth, reliable scholar with deep knowledge. He was known as the scribe of al-Wāqidī and the author
of al-Ṭabaqāt. He was born in 106 A.H. Al-Khaṭīb has said regarding him, “From the people of merit,
knowledge, understanding and impartiality. His narrations suggest that he was trustworthy.” He
passed away in Baghdād in 230 A.H. His narrations appear in Sunan Abī Dāwūd. Some of his books are:
al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā. See: Tārīkh Baghdād 5/321; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 10/664; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb 9/161;
Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥuffāẓ p. 186.
3 Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad al-Thaqafī. The governor of the lands of Sindh and its
conqueror. He was the cousin of al-Ḥajjāj. He attacked these lands at the age of seventeen. Thereafter
he remained its governor till Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik assumed the Khilāfah. Sulaymān had
deposed him and appointed Ibn Abī Kabshah in his place. Ibn Abī Kabshah had subsequently tied him
and sent him to the governor of Wāsiṭ who imprisoned him and punished him till he died, doing so
in order to take revenge for his brother who Ibn Qāsim had killed. This was in 98 A.H. See: al-Kāmil fī
al-Tārīkh 4/250, 286; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 9/87; Tārīkh ibn Khaldūn 3/83; al-Aʿlām 6/333.
4 Al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā 6/304; Tārīkh al-Islām 7/424; al-Wāfī bi al-Wafayāt 20/56; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb
7/201.
5 Miṣdaʿ al-Aʿraj al-Anṣārī, their client, Abū Yaḥyā al-Kūfī, commonly known as ‘al-Muʿarqab. He was
a successor who had Shīʿī leanings and had knowledge regarding Ibn ʿAbbās I. Al-Dhahabī has said
regarding him, “An average narrator, regarding who scholars have spoken.” I did not come across the
date of his demise. His narrations appear in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim and the four Sunans. See: al-Majrūḥīn 3/39;
Mīzān al-Iʿtidāl 6/433; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb 10/143.
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