Umm Saʿīd said to ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar, “Shall I embalm him with musk?” He replied, “And what fragrance is finer than musk?” So she handed him some musk. (1)

Sulaymān ibn Bilāl reported: al-Juʿayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us from ʿĀʾishah bint Saʿd, who said, “Saʿīd ibn Zayd died at al-ʿAqīq, whereupon Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ washed him, shrouded him, and joined his funeral procession.” (2)

More than one narrator transmitted from Mālik that he said, “Saʿīd ibn Zayd died while Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ was at al-ʿAqīq.” (3)

Al-Wāqidī said, “Saʿīd ibn Zayd passed away in 51 AH, at a little over seventy years of age. He was buried in Medina, and Saʿd and Ibn ʿUmar themselves descended into his grave.” The same was stated by Abū ʿUbayd, Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr, and Shihāb.

Al-Wāqidī also said, “Saʿīd was brown-skinned, tall, and noticeably hairy.”

Al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī alone diverged and said that he died in Kūfah.

ʿUbayd Allah ibn Saʿd al-Zuhrī held that he died in 52 AH.

Such, then, is what has been facilitated of the biographies of the Ten: the best of Quraysh, the foremost of the early Emigrants, the elite of Badr, the Companions of the Tree, and the chiefs of this ummah in this world and the Hereafter.

May Allah cast the Rāfiḍah far away—how grievously they have been led astray and how extreme is their passion! How can they recognize the virtue of only one of these men while denying the other nine their due, and fabricate against them (4) the charge that they concealed an explicit designation in favor of ʿAlī as caliph?

By Allah, none of that ever happened. Yet they claim that the Ten distorted the matter away from him, disobeyed their Prophet, and hastened to pledge allegiance to a man from Banū Taym who engaged in trade and earned his livelihood