A report from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl states that his grandfather came across a ring engraved with images on the day of Muʿtah, so his father allotted it to him as an extra share.⦗1⦘
Maʿmar relates from Zayd ibn Aslam: Aqīl once brought a sewing-needle and said to his wife, “Use this to stitch your clothes.” Then he heard the crier announce, “Let no one misappropriate even a needle or anything above it.”⦗2⦘ Aqīl thereupon said to her, “It seems your needle is no longer yours.”⦗3⦘
ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān transmits from Abū Isḥāq that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to Aqīl, “O Abū Yazīd, I love you with two loves: because of our kinship, and because my uncle loved you.”⦗4⦘
Ibn Jurayj reports from ʿAṭāʾ: “I saw ʿAqīl ibn Abī Ṭālib as a very old man hoisting the large water-bucket.”⦗5⦘
They say he died during the rule of Muʿāwiyah, and further details of his life will appear later.⦗6⦘
(1) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat, 4 / 1 / 30, through the chain of Qays b. al-Rabiʿ → Jabir → ʿAbd Allah b. Muhammad b. ʿAqil.
(2) The expression belongs to the term ghulul: betrayal regarding war booty, i.e. stealing from the spoils before their distribution. The editor of the printed edition was puzzled by it and left the space blank.
(3) Reported by Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat, 4 / 1 / 30.
(4) Recorded by al-Hakim, 3 / 576, and by Ibn Saʿd, 4 / 1 / 30. Al-Haythami cites it in Majmaʿ al-zawaʾid, 9 / 373, attributes it to al-Tabarani with a mursal chain, and remarks: “its transmitters are reliable.” See also al-Istiʿab, 8 / 108, and Usd al-ghabah, 4 / 64. Kanz al-ʿummal (no. 33617) ascribes it to Ibn Saʿd, al-Baghawi, al-Tabarani and Ibn ʿAsakir, from Abu Ishaq with a mursal chain. Al-Hakim (3 / 576) likewise narrates it via Abu Hamzah → Yazid b. ʿAbd al-Rahman b. Sabet → Hudhayfah.
(5) The phrase yaqillu al-gharb means “to carry”; al-gharb is a large water-bucket. Ibn Saʿd’s Tabaqat (14 / 1 / 30) reads “baʿl al-ʿarab,” which is incorrect. The editor of the printed text found the sentence unclear and left the space empty.
(6) Reported by Ibn Saʿd, 4 / 1 / 30. Al-Hafiz states in al-Isabah, 7 / 31, that al-Bukhari’s Tarikh transmits with a sound chain that he died at the beginning of Yazid’s caliphate, prior to the Harrah incident.