—at the engagement of al-Qādisiyyah. It is also said that he was the father of ʿUmayr ibn Saʿd al-Zāhid, the governor of Ḥimṣ appointed by ʿUmar. Saʿd had fought at Badr and elsewhere, and he was known as “Saʿd the Reciter.”

Muḥammad ibn Saʿd records that al-Qādisiyyah took place in 16 AH and that Saʿd was killed there at the age of sixty-four.

Qays ibn Muslim, narrating from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, reports that Saʿd ibn ʿUbayd addressed the troops, saying, “Tomorrow we shall face the enemy and tomorrow we shall be martyred. Do not wash any blood from us, and shroud us only in the garment we are wearing.”

• Saʿīd ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Qays ibn ʿAdī al-Qurashī al-Sahmī and his brothers—al-Ḥajjāj, Maʿbad, Tamīm, Abū Qays, ʿAbd Allāh, and al-Sāʾib—were all among the emigrants to Abyssinia, as Ibn Saʿd notes. Most of them were martyred at Yarmūk or at Ajnādayn.

• ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sufyān, the nephew of Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Asad al-Makhzūmī, was a Companion who emigrated to Abyssinia and transmitted hadith; ʿAmr ibn Dīnār related from him with a discontinuous chain. He was martyred at Yarmūk.

• ʿAmr ibn Umm Maktūm, the blind Companion, served as the muʾadhdhin of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and the Prophet left him in charge of Madinah on more than one expedition. It is said that the banner was entrusted to him on the day of al-Qādisiyyah, where he was martyred. Ibn Saʿd, however, states that he returned to Madinah after al-Qādisiyyah, and we find no further mention of him after ʿUmar’s time.