Syria, but the ship was wrecked under them—though none of them drowned. They returned and accepted Islam, and ʿUmar assigned each of them a stipend of two thousand and gave Hurmuzān the name ʿArfaṭa.
Al-Miswar ibn Makhramah said, “I saw Hurmuzān at al-Rawḥāʾ reciting the talbiya for the pilgrimage alongside ʿUmar.”
Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd related—through his father from his grandfather—“I saw Hurmuzān pronouncing the talbiya for Hajj with ʿUmar, wearing a striped robe.”
ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Jadʿān reported from Anas: “I never saw a man with a flatter stomach or broader shoulders than Hurmuzān.”
ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī: Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib told me that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr—who had never been known to lie—said:
“I came upon Hurmuzān, Jufaynah, and Abū Luʾluʾah as they were conferring in secret, so I followed them. A double-edged dagger whose handle sat in the middle fell from among them. I said, ‘Look—here is the weapon by which ʿUmar was killed.’ They examined it and indeed found a dagger of exactly that description.
“Ubayd Allah ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb then came out, his sword wrapped in his cloak, until he reached Hurmuzān and said, ‘Come with me to look at a horse of mine’—for he was skilled in horses. Hurmuzān walked on ahead of him, and Ubayd Allah struck him with the sword. When Hurmuzān felt the edge he said, ‘There is no god but Allah,’ and Ubayd Allah killed him.
“He next went to Jufaynah, who was a Christian. The moment Jufaynah appeared, Ubayd Allah struck him with the sword, cleaving his forehead between the eyes. Then he went to the daughter of Abū Luʾluʾah, a young girl who claimed to be Muslim, and he killed her as well. On that day the earth seemed to darken for its people.
“He came back with the naked sword in his hand, saying, ‘By Allah, I will not leave in Madinah a single captive without killing him—and others besides,’ hinting, it seemed, at certain Emigrants. The people kept telling him, ‘Put down the sword,’ but he refused, and they were afraid to approach him until ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ came and said, ‘Hand me the sword, my nephew.’ So he gave it to him, whereupon ʿUthmān rushed forward and took…"