Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid also related—through Qays—from Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: “I was in Yemen when I met two Yemeni men, Dhu Kulāʿ and Dhu ʿAmr. I began telling them about the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. They said to me, ‘If what you are saying is true, then your companion passed away three days ago.’ I set off, and they travelled with me. When we were partway along the road, a party of riders appeared from the direction of Medina. We asked them, and they replied, ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has passed away, Abū Bakr has been appointed as caliph, and the people are at peace.’ The two men then said to me, ‘Inform your companion that we did come, and, if Allah wills, we shall return,’ and they went back to Yemen.” He (Jarīr) mentioned the remainder of the account. Al-Bukhārī recorded this ḥadīth.