Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār said: “In later years Suhayl devoted himself to abundant prayer, fasting, and charity, and he set out with his followers to Syria as a combatant in the cause of Allah.
People relate that he fasted and spent the night in worship until his complexion grew sallow and changed, and that he would weep copiously whenever he heard the Qur’an.
He was the commander of the detachment called Kurdus (1) on the day of Yarmūk. Al-Madā’inī and others report that he was martyred at Yarmūk (2), whereas al-Shāfi‘ī and al-Wāqidī say he died in the plague of ‘Amwās.
Narrations are recorded from him by Yazīd ibn ‘Amīrah al-Zubaydī and others.
26 – al-Barā’ ibn Mālik ibn al-Naḍr ibn Ḍamḍam al-Anṣārī, the son of Zayd ibn Ḥarām ibn Jundub ibn ‘Āmir ibn Ghanm ibn ‘Adiyy ibn al-Najjār—of the Anṣār, of the Najjār clan, a Medinan Companion—
a valiant, ever-advancing champion, a Companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and the brother of the Prophet’s servant Anas ibn Mālik. He fought at Uhud and was among those who pledged allegiance beneath the Tree.
(1) kardus: a large detachment of cavalry or soldiers; plural karadis.
(2) Yarmuk: a valley in greater Syria at the edge of the Ghawr into which the Jordan River flows. It was the site of the decisive battle between the Muslims and the Byzantines that broke the back of the Byzantine emperor, who never recovered from it. The army on that day was commanded by Khalid b. al-Walid. See: Yaqut, Mujam al-Buldan, vol. 5, p. 434; Khalifa b. Khayyat, Tarikh, p. 120 ff.; and the accounts for the year 13 AH in al-Tabari and Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil fi al-tarikh.
(*) Further sources: Ibn Sad, Tabaqat, 7/1/9; Khalifa b. Khayyat, Tarikh, p. 146; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-kabir, 2/2/117; idem, al-Tarikh al-saghir, 1/55; al-Tabari, Tarikh, 3/209; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-tadil, 2/399; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir Ulama al-amsar, no. 37; Ibn al-Tilmisani, al-Istibsar, pp. 34–36; Abu Nuaym, Hilyat al-awliya, 1/350; Ibn Abd al-Barr, al-Istiab, 1/284; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-ghaba, 1/206; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-islam, 2/34; al-Haythami, Majma al-zawaid, 9/324; Ibn Hajar, al-Isaba, 1/235; al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Kanz al-ummal, 13/294.