, so the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent word guaranteeing them safety, pardoned them both, and they came back to him.
Abu l-Qasim Ibn ʿAsakir ⦗1⦘ has compiled his report in full.
Al-Tirmidhi narrates—through the chain of Musʿab ibn Saʿd, from ʿIkrimah, though he never actually met him—that the Prophet ﷺ said to him, “Welcome, O rider who has come in migration!”
He replied, “Messenger of Allah, by Allah, I shall not leave any sum I once spent against you without spending its like now in the cause of Allah.” ⦗2⦘
ʿIkrimah left no surviving offspring.
Al-Shafiʿi said, “His conduct in Islam was praiseworthy—may Allah be pleased with him.”
Abu Ishaq al-Sabiʿi reported: “On the day of Yarmuk, ʿIkrimah entered the fray, fought with tremendous valor, and was martyred; they counted on his body more than seventy wounds—stabs, arrow strikes, and sword-blows.”
ʿUrwah, Ibn Saʿd, and others maintained that he was killed at Ajnadin instead.