Hakim ibn Jabala al-Abdi

Hakim ibn Jabala al-Abdi, mentioned by al-Mas'udi, al-Baladhuri and Ibn Khallikan in the accounts of Basra in the time of Uthman, and then in the battle of the Camel. ^{2 3}.

Abd Allah ibn Amir sent him to scout the frontier of India. The sources report that he described to Uthman lands whose water was scant and whose fruit was poor: if the army was small in them it was lost, and if it was large it went hungry. No one then campaigned there. ². Al-Mas'udi has that he set out with a hundred men of Basra among those who rose against Uthman. ²

Uthman ibn Hunayf (may God be pleased with him) appointed him chief of police in Basra. When Talha, al-Zubayr and Aisha made for Basra, he advised Ibn Hunayf to stop them, but Ibn Hunayf refused. ³

Then he set out with seven hundred men of Abd al-Qays against Ibn al-Zubayr when he came to the town of al-Rizq. He fought him, and Hakim and seventy of his companions were killed. ³ It is reported that Suhaym struck off his neck; this is a report that Ibn Khallikan transmits. ³