to ʿĀmir ibn al-Ṭufayl; yet he did not even look at the letter before having the messenger killed.

He then called the Banū Sulaym to arms, surrounded the party and fought them until every one of them was martyred. No one survived except Kaʿb ibn Zayd al-Najjārī, who had been left with a spark of life in him; he recovered, but was later martyred on the Day of the Trench. ʿĀmir ibn (1) al-Ṭufayl set free ʿAmr ibn Umayyah al-Ḍumarī because the latter told him that he belonged to Muḍar.

38 – Kulthūm ibn al-Hidm ibn Imriʾ al-Qays ibn al-Ḥārith al-Anṣārī, son of Zayd ibn ʿUbayd ibn Zayd ibn Mālik ibn ʿAwf ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf ibn Mālik of the Aws—al-ʿAwfī—Shaykh of the Anṣār, with whom the Prophet ﷺ lodged when he first arrived at Qubāʾ on coming to Medina, and who by then was already advanced in age.

The author of al-Ṭabaqāt states: “Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar informed us; Mujammaʿ ibn Yaʿqūb related to us, from Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ruqaysh, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jāriyah, from his uncle Mujammaʿ. (ḥ)

Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar also informed us; Ibn Abī Sabrah related to us, from ʿUthmān ibn Waththāb, from Abū Ghaṭfān, from Ibn ʿAbbās. They both said:

Kulthūm ibn al-Hidm was a man of standing and already elderly. He accepted Islam before the Prophet ﷺ reached Medina; when the Prophet migrated, he lodged with him.

Kulthūm would hold gatherings in the house of Saʿd ibn Khaythamah, which was known as ‘the house of the bachelors’ (2).