to Jerusalem in order to pray, and he appointed Muʿādh ibn Jabal as his deputy over the people. (1)

Al-Walīd said, “Someone who had listened to ʿUrwah ibn Ruwaym related to me that he (ʿUrwah) said: Death overtook him at Fiḥl, and he passed away there, near Baysan. (2)

The plague of ʿAmwās is named after the village of ʿAmwās, which lies between Ramla and Jerusalem. Al-Aṣmaʿī, however, explained (3) that the designation comes from their expression during the plague: ‘ʿamma (it spread widely) and āsā (it devastated).’

Abu Ḥafs al-Fallās said: Abu ʿUbaydah died in the year 18 AH, at the age of fifty-eight. He used to dye his hair and beard with henna and katam, and he wore two plaits. (4) Several other authorities have given the same date for his death. Ibn ʿĀyidh alone reported—on the authority of Abu Mushir—that he had read in the book of Yazīd ibn ʿUbaydah that Abu ʿUbaydah died in the year 17 AH.

2 – Talḥah ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAmr al-Taymī* (ʿ):
son of Kaʿb ibn Saʿd ibn Taym ibn Murrah ibn Kaʿb ibn Luʾayy ibn Ghālib ibn Fihr ibn Mālik ibn al-Naḍr ibn Kinānah, a Qurashī of the Taym clan from Mecca, Abū Muḥammad.