رجاء بن حيْوة الكندي

Raja ibn Haywa al-Kindi, adviser to Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik. al-Suyuti reports that he advised Sulayman to name Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz as his successor, and after him Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik, and that the document should be written and sealed and the community called to pledge allegiance to it ².

al-Sallabi says that Sulayman wrote the document during his illness at Dabiq, and that Raja undertook to take the pledge ³. He refused to tell Hisham what the document contained ⁴. al-Mas'udi relates that when Sulayman was dying at Marj Dabiq, he summoned Raja, together with al-Zuhri and Makhul; they wrote his will and had them witness it ⁵.

al-Sallabi describes him as held in high esteem by both Sulayman and Umar ⁶.