• Aws ibn Khawli of the Banu al-Hublā. An Ansari who fought at Badr. He assisted in washing the Messenger of Allah and was among those who descended into his grave. He died before ʿUthmān was killed.

• al-Jadd ibn Qays. It is reported that he repented of his hypocrisy and that his state thereafter became sound.

• al-Ḥuṭayʾa the poet, Abū Malīka al-ʿAbsī—some say his name was Jarwal. He lived through a long stretch of the pre-Islamic era and the dawn of Islam. He once entered upon ʿUmar and recited:
Whoever does good shall not be denied its reward;
kindness never perishes with Allah or with people.
He roamed far and wide, praising the great and soliciting their gifts. He was habitually importunate yet stingy. On one occasion, as he mounted to visit kings, he said to his household:
Count the years if I depart on a long journey,
but disregard the months, for they are brief.

• Zayd ibn Khārija ibn Zayd ibn Abī Zuhayr al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī—the man who spoke after death. He was a Companion and a transmitter of hadith; his father had been killed at Uḥud.

Sulaymān ibn Bilāl narrated from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, that Zayd ibn Khārija died during the caliphate of ʿUthmān. He was shrouded and covered with a cloth, but they then heard a rattling in his chest, after which he spoke, saying:
“Aḥmad, Aḥmad, in the former Scripture!
True, true is Abū Bakr—the man weak in himself yet strong in Allah’s cause—in the former Scripture!
True, true is ʿUmar—the strong and trustworthy—in the former Scripture!
True, true is ʿUthmān, upon their same path. Four years have passed and two remain. Trials have arrived, the strong have devoured the weak, the Hour has risen, and news of Biʾr Arīs will soon reach you—what of Biʾr Arīs!”