'Isa ibn Da'b
عيسى بن دأب
The Hijazi polymath al-Hadi alone honoured with a cushion — 'I never tired of you for a day or a night' 1.
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Isa ibn Dab, from the Hijaz. Al-Mas'udi describes him as the most literary, learned and knowledgeable of the people of his age in the reports and days of people. 1
The council of al-Hadi
He sat with the caliph al-Hadi, who used to have a cushion placed for him, and no one else hoped for that. Al-Mas'udi relays from al-Hadi his words to him: "I have never kept you a day or a night too long." Isa also transmitted from him the story of the Sindhi boy. 1
Sources
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 315
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