Others also report that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ established a bond of brotherhood between Aqil and Mujazzar ibn Ziyad.
Aqil fell as a martyr at Badr when he was thirty-four years old; he was killed by Malik ibn Zuhayr al-Jushami (1).
His brother:
17 – Khalid ibn al-Bukayr ibn ʿAbd Ya-Layl ibn Nāshib al-Laythi, also recorded as “ibn Abi al-Bukayr.”
Ibn Saʿd said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ made him the brother of Zayd ibn al-Dathinna. Khalid fought at Badr and at Uhud, and he was killed at al-Rajiʿ (2) in Safar of the year 4 AH, at the age of thirty-four.
Their brother:
18 – Iyās ibn Abi al-Bukayr ibn ʿAbd Ya-Layl al-Laythi.
Ibn Saʿd (3) stated that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ paired him with al-Harith ibn Khazama. He was present at Badr and at every subsequent engagement, and he later participated in the conquest of Egypt. He died in 34 AH.
(1) Reported by Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, vol. 3, part 1, p. 283; also in Usd al-Ghabah, vol. 3, p. 116, and in Ibn Hisham, vol. 1, p. 477.
(*) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, vol. 3, part 1, p. 283; Khalifah, Tabaqat, p. 13; Khalifah, Tarikh, pp. 74–75; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istiʿab, vol. 3, pp. 162–163; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghabah, vol. 2, p. 91; al-Fasi, al-ʿAqd al-Thamin, vol. 4, p. 261; Ibn Hajar, al-Isabah, vol. 3, p. 51.
(2) The name here refers to a locality of the Hudhayl territory, situated eight miles west of ʿUsfan; the engagement occurred there and the place gave its name to the battle. The account of the Expedition of al-Rajiʿ is recorded by al-Bukhari (no. 4086) in the Book of Military Expeditions, chapter “The Expedition of al-Rajiʿ”; also by Ibn Hisham, vol. 2, p. 169, and by Ibn Kathir, al-Sira, vol. 3, p. 123.
(**) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, vol. 3, part 1, p. 283; Khalifah, Tabaqat, p. 23; al-Istiʿab, vol. 1, p. 230; Usd al-Ghabah, vol. 1, p. 181; al-Fasi, al-ʿAqd al-Thamin, vol. 3, p. 339; al-Isabah, vol. 1, p. 143.
(3) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, vol. 3, part 1, p. 283.