خلاصه ماشینی:
132, none has left behmd such an able record of rule, such striking traces of statesmanship and, above all, of personal and political integrity, as a man of very low social level Ziyad, "the son of his father.
It is definite that he was bornof a slave-girl of at-Ta'if, Sumayya by name, but it is not certain that his father, too, was a slave ( though, this is the prevalent conjecture) or the famous Abu-Sufyan, the father of Mu'awiyah, who had a liaison with the slave• girl prior to Ziyad's birth and laid claim to his fatherhood when, as army clerk, Ziyad had delivered a matchless speech before a large gathering of al-Madinah at Caliph 'Umar's instance.
" "And let it be known to you that in whatsoever I may fall short, I shall not fall short of three things: I shall· not refuse an interview to a man who comes to me in need, no matter whether it be night or day, I shall not delay payment of your salaries and allowances and I shall not keep you for long in the enemy's land.
s the Governor of al-Basrah, 'Umar had enjoined on him not to allow such invocations: "If a dispute arises between the tribes and they call one another by shouting; Yala-Fulanin, then be sure that it is the whisper of the devil and cut off their heads with the sword until they act according to God's behests and until their call be directed to Him and to the Imam..