from al-Baḥrain to the Prophet a sum of money amounting to 80,000 [dirhams], more than which sum the Prophet never received either before or after. The Prophet gave a part of it to his uncle al-ʿAbbâs.
Hishâm ibn-ʿAmmâr from ʿAbd-al-ʿAzîz ibn-ʿUbaidallâh:—The Prophet communicated with those in Hajar whom Kisra had settled there as hostages [waḍâʾiʿ], but they refused Islâm and tax was laid on them, one dînâr on every man.
Abân ibn-Saʿîd made governor and succeeded by abu-Hurairah. The Prophet dismissed al-ʿAlâʾ and assigned to al-Baḥrain Abân ibn-Saʿîd ibn-al-ʿÂṣi ibn-Umaiyah. According to other reports, al-ʿAlâʾ was assigned to one district of al-Baḥrain, a part of which was al-Ḳaṭîf, and Abân to another in which lay al-Khaṭṭ. The former report, however, is the more authentic. On the death of the Prophet, Abân left al-Baḥrain and came to al-Madînah. The people of al-Baḥrain, thereupon, asked abu-Bakr to send al-ʿAlâʾ back to them. This he did. Thus, according to this report, al-ʿAlâʾ held the governorship of al-Baḥrain until he died in the year 20. Then ʿUmar assigned to his place abu-Hurairah ad-Dausi. Others say that ʿUmar assigned abu-Hurairah before the death of al-ʿAlâʾ, who, thereupon, left for Tauwaj in Persia, intending to settle in it. Later, however, he returned to al-Bahrain where he died. Abu-Hurairah often repeated, "After we buried al-ʿAlâʾ, we wanted to lift a brick from the tomb. On lifting it we found al-ʿAlâʾ missing from the coffin."
ʿUthmân ibn-abi-l-ʿÂṣi made governor. Abu-Mikhnaf asserted that ʿUmar ibn-al-Khaṭṭâb wrote to al-ʿAlâʾ ibn-al-Ḥaḍrami, his ʿâmil in al-Baḥrain, calling him back, and assigned ʿUthmân ibn-abi-l-ʿÂṣi ath-Thaḳafi to al-Baḥrain and ʿUmân. On the arrival of al-ʿAlâʾ in al-Madînah, he was assigned by ʿUmar to the governorship of al-Baṣrah, in
