'Isa ibn Da'b

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

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