ʿUmar then appointed al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah as governor of Basra and sent Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh in command of the Sawād (the cultivated lands of Iraq). Jarīr met Mihrān and killed him. ʿUmar later dispatched Saʿd and ordered Jarīr to serve under his command.

In that same year ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr was born—the first child ever born in Basra.

During the year a large number of people were martyred, while others passed away. Among them were:

• Aws ibn Aws ibn ʿAtīk – martyred on the Day of the Bridge of Abū ʿUbayd, at a site two days’ march from Kūfah, between it and Najrān;
• Bashīr ibn ʿAnbas ibn Yazd al-Ẓafarī – a participant at Uḥud and cousin of Qatādah ibn al-Nuʿmān; known as “the Horseman of al-Ḥawāʾ,” al-Ḥawāʾ being the name of his horse; killed that day;
• Thābit ibn ʿAtīk of the Banū ʿAmr ibn Mabdhūl – an Anṣārī Companion; killed that day;
• Thaʿlabah ibn ʿAmr ibn Muḥṣin – killed on the Day of the Bridge; he belonged to the Banū Mālik ibn al-Najjār and had fought at Badr;
• al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAtīk ibn al-Nuʿmān (Abū Akhzam) – killed that day; of the Banū al-Najjār; present at Uḥud; brother of Sahl, who fought at Badr;
• al-Ḥārith ibn Masʿūd ibn ʿAbdah – a Companion; killed that day;
• al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAdī ibn Mālik – killed that day; he had fought at Uḥud; both he and the previous al-Ḥārith were from the Anṣār;
• Khālid ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ al-Umawī – said to have been martyred on the Day of Marj al-Ṣuffar, which occurred in Muḥarram of 14 AH, as already noted;
• Khuzaymah ibn Aws ibn Khuzaymah al-Ashhalī – killed on the Day of the Bridge.