twenty-one AH.
Marwan ibn Muhammad al-Tātari said, “Bilal died at Darayya; his body was then taken and buried at Bab al-Saghir.”
ʿAbd al-Jabbar ibn Muhammad, in his History of Darayya, relates: “I heard a number of men from the clan of Khawlan say, ‘His grave is in Darayya, in the Khawlan cemetery.’ ”
As for ʿUthman ibn Khurrazadh (1), he said, “Muhammad ibn Abi Usamah al-Halabi narrated to us; Abu Saʿd al-Ansari narrated to us; from ʿAli ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman, who said: ‘Bilal died in Aleppo and was buried at Bab al-Arbaʿin.’ ”
A total of 44 hadiths are reported from him. Of these, four are found in the Two Sahihs, and the narrations upon which both agreed number one. Al-Bukhari alone records two, while Muslim has one mawquf report.
- Ibn Umm Maktum al-Qurashi al-ʿAmiri
There is a difference of opinion regarding his given name: the people of Medina say he is ʿAbd Allah ibn Qays ibn Zāʾidah ibn al-Aṣamm ibn Rawahah al-Qurashi, al-ʿAmiri, whereas the people of Iraq call him ʿAmr.
His mother, Umm Maktum, was ʿAtikah bint ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAnkathah ibn ʿAmir ibn Makhzum ibn Yaqazah of Banu Makhzum.
He was among the earliest Emigrants. Blind from birth, he served as a muezzin for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ alongside Bilal, Saʿd al-Qaraz, and Abu Mahdhurah,