Al-Madaʾinī, al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī (1) and a number of other authorities date his death to the year 32 AH. Al-Madaʾinī further states that he was buried in al-Baqīʿ.

Yaʿqūb ibn al-Mughīrah says he lived seventy-five years (2).

Abū ʿUmar Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr remarks: “He was tireless in commerce; he left behind one thousand camels, three thousand sheep, and one hundred horses, and he cultivated land at al-Jurf (3) using twenty water-drawing camels.”

I say: this is the model of a wealthy man who gives thanks; then there is the destitute who bears hardship with patience, while Abū Dharr—or Abū ʿUbaydah—is the self-denying, chaste man.

Husayn al-Jāfī narrates from Jaʿfar ibn Atrqān who said, “It has reached me that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf emancipated thirty thousand households (4).”

5 – Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ Mālik ibn Uhayb al-Zuhri * (ʿ)

The personal name of Abū Waqqāṣ is Mālik ibn Uhayb ibn ʿAbd Manāf ibn Zuhrah ibn Kilāb ibn Murrah ibn Kaʿb ibn Luʾayy.