return her, I have heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: “The first man who will alter my Sunnah will be from the clan of Umayyah; he will be called Yazīd.”
Yazīd said, “I adjure you by Allah, am I that man?”
“No,” Abū Dharr replied. So Yazīd gave the slave-girl back to her owner.⦗1⦘
Al-Ruyānī recorded the report in his Musnad.
Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd said: “At the Battle of Yarmūk, Yazīd ibn Abī Sufyān commanded one quarter of the army, Abū ʿUbaydah one quarter, ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ one quarter, and Shuraḥbīl ibn Ḥasanah one quarter; on that day they had no overall commander.”
Yazīd died in the Plague of ʿAmwās in 18 AH. As death approached he appointed his brother Muʿāwiyah over his jurisdiction, and ʿUmar confirmed Muʿāwiyah out of respect for Yazīd and in execution of his nomination.
Those who also died of the plague that same year ⦗2⦘ were: Abū ʿUbaydah, the Trustworthy One of the Ummah; Muʿādh ibn Jabal, the leader of the scholars; the warrior-commander Shuraḥbīl ibn Ḥasanah, ally of Banū Zuhrah; al-Faḍl ibn al-ʿAbbās, the Prophet’s cousin, who was in his early twenties; al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām ibn al-Mughīrah al-Makhzūmī Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, one of the noble Companions and the brother of Abū Jahl; and Abū Jandal ibn Suhayl ibn ʿAmr al-ʿĀmirī—may Allah be pleased with them all.
- Abū al-ʿĀṣ ibn al-Rabīʿ ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā al-Qurashī, son of ʿAbd Shams ibn ʿAbd Manāf ibn Quṣayy ibn Kilāb al-Qurashī,