be killed until his son and his clan are killed along with him. Therefore, do not provoke him so long as affairs remain orderly for you; after all, he is only one man as long as he is left alone.

So Abū Bakr left him. When ʿUmar came to power he met him and said, “Well then, Saʿd!”

Saʿd replied, “Well then, ʿUmar!”

ʿUmar asked, “Are you still intent on that business of yours?”

He answered, “Yes. Yet the authority has now passed to you, and—by Allah—your companion was dearer to us than you. I have grown weary of residing near you.”

ʿUmar said, “Whoever dislikes that may move elsewhere.”

Not long afterward Saʿd left for Syria and died in Ḥawrān (1).

Its chain of transmission is as you see (2).

Ibn ʿAwn, on the authority of Ibn Sīrīn, reported that Saʿd once urinated while standing and then died; a Christian priest was heard reciting:

“We have slain the chief of the Khazraj, Saʿd ibn ʿUbādah;
We shot him with two arrows and did not miss his heart.” (3)

Saʿd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said: The first town to be conquered was Busra, and it was there that Saʿd ibn ʿUbādah died.

Abū ʿUbayd said: He died in the year 14 AH in Ḥawrān (4).

Ibn Abī ʿArūbah likewise narrated from Ibn Sīrīn that Saʿd ibn ʿUbādah urinated standing and then died, saying, “I feel something creeping within me.”