—may Allah be pleased with him.
It was recorded by al-Bayhaqī, who then cited it with a similar wording through the chain of Ibn Isḥāq, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Saʿsaʿah, much as has already been mentioned. (1)
Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr relates—from Mālik ibn Anas—that the Prophet ﷺ said, “Who will bring us news of Saʿd?”
A man replied, “I will.”
He walked among the fallen, found Saʿd with but a spark of life remaining, and said, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has sent me to bring him word of you.”
Saʿd answered, “Then go back, convey my greetings to him, and tell him that I have been struck by twelve thrusts and that they have reached my vital organs.” (2)
- Maʿn ibn ʿAdī ibn al-Jadd ibn al-ʿAjlān al-Anṣārī*
Al-ʿAjlānī, al-ʿAqabī, al-Badrī; an ally of Banū Mālik ibn ʿAwf, one of the leading men of the Helpers. He could write Arabic before the advent of Islam.
Ibn Saʿd says: “He still has descendants today.”
Al-Zuhri narrated—through ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from Ibn ʿAbbās—that Maʿn ibn ʿAdī was one of the two men who met Abū Bakr and ʿUmar as they were on their way to the Saqīfah of Banī Sāʿidah,