A summary of those who passed away during the caliphate of ʿUmar—may Allah be pleased with him:

• al-Aqraʿ ibn Ḥābis al-Tamīmī al-Mujāshiʿī. He was one of the muʾallafa qulūbuhum (chieftains whose allegiance had been won over) and a leading notable. Abū Bakr had allotted land to him and to ʿUyaynah ibn Ḥiṣn, but ʿUmar revoked the grant and erased the deed Abū Bakr had written for them. Both men ranked among the great figures of their tribe. Al-Aqraʿ fought alongside Khālid during the Iraqi campaigns, commanding the vanguard. Another report says that ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir appointed him to lead an army he dispatched to Khurāsān, and that he and the force were wiped out at Jūzjān during the caliphate of ʿUthmān. Ibn Durayd stated that his personal name was Firās ibn Ḥābis ibn ʿIqāl and that he was nicknamed al-Aqraʿ because of a bald spot on his head.

• al-Ḥabbāb ibn al-Mundhir ibn al-Jamūḥ, Abū ʿAmr al-Anṣārī, of Banū Salamah ibn Saʿd—some say his kunya was Abū ʿAmr—was known as Dhū al-Raʾy (“the man of sound judgment”). On the day of Badr he advised the Prophet—Allah bless him and grant him peace—to encamp at the farthest well so that the idolaters would be left without water. He is also the one who declared at the Saqīfah of Banū Sāʿidah: “I am its rubbing-post and its well-propped palm; let there be one leader from us and one leader from you.” A jadhl is a post set up for mangy camels to rub against, while an ʿidhiq is a date-palm; a palm is called murajjab when a noble tree is supported with stones or wood lest, under the weight of its fruit, it topple—one says rajabtuhā, “I have propped it,” and hiya murajjabah, “it is supported.” Among those who transmitted ḥadith from him was Abū al-Ṭufayl.