Ibn Saʿd said: He had made preparations to set out for Badr and would go round the houses of the Anṣār urging them to depart, but he was bitten (or otherwise injured) and therefore remained behind.

The Prophet ﷺ said, “Even if Saʿd did not witness Badr, he was certainly keen to do so.” (1)

He was, moreover, a participant at ʿAqabah, a naqīb (delegate), a chief, and a generous man.

When the Prophet ﷺ arrived in Medina, Saʿd used to send him each day a large bowl of tharīd with meat, or tharīd with milk, or something similar; Saʿd’s bowl would go with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ through the houses of his wives.

Al-Bukhārī states in his History that he did attend Badr, a view followed by Ibn Mandah.

Among those who narrated from him were his sons—Qays, Saʿīd, and Isḥāq—and Ibn ʿAbbās.

According to Ibn ʿAsākir he later took up residence in Damascus, (2) and he died in Ḥawrān. Others say that his grave is at al-Manīḥah. (3)

Ibn Shihāb reported from ʿUbaydullāh, from Ibn ʿAbbās, from Saʿd ibn ʿUbādah that his mother died owing a vow, so he asked the Prophet ﷺ about it, and the Prophet instructed him to fulfill it on her behalf. (4)