by his handsome appearance.

He enjoyed great influence with Muʿāwiyah; on occasion he would even disagree with him, and Muʿāwiyah would comply.

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Budayl ibn Waraqāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā al-Khuzāʿī—whose kunya was Abū ʿAmr.

Al-Bukhārī records in his History that he was among those who burst in on ʿUthmān, stabbed ʿUthmān in the jugular, and that al-Tanūkhī then struck ʿUthmān with a sword.

He had embraced Islam together with his father before the Conquest (of Mecca), witnessed the Conquest and everything that followed, and was a man of rank and distinction. He and his brother ʿAbd al-Raḥmān were killed at Ṣiffīn on ʿAlī’s side, and he was in command of the infantry.

Al-Shaʿbī said: “That day ʿAbd Allāh was wearing two coats of mail and wielding two swords. He advanced, striking the Syrians until he reached Muʿāwiyah himself. They closed in on him and killed him. When Muʿāwiyah saw him lying dead he exclaimed, ‘By Allah, had the very women of Khuzaʿah been able, they too would have fought us—let alone their men!’”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaʿb al-Murādī was one of the senior officers in ʿAlī’s army. He was killed at Ṣiffīn, and it is said that he was a Companion.

ʿUbayd Allāh, son of the Commander of the Believers ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, a Qurashī of the clan of ʿAdī from Madinah.

He was born during the Prophet’s lifetime, heard traditions from his father and from ʿUthmān, and transmitted mursal reports from the Prophet. His kunya was Abū ʿĪsā. He took part in military expeditions during his father’s caliphate. His mother was Umm Kulthūm al-Khuzāʿiyyah.