I said: that is, at the moment when Jesus was taken up to heaven.
Damrah ibn Rabiʿah stated: Muʿādh died at Qusayr Khālid in the Jordan district.
Yazīd ibn ʿUbaydah said: Muʿādh passed away in the year 17 AH.
Al-Madāʾinī and a group of scholars said: in the year 17—or 18—AH.
Ibn Isḥāq and al-Fallās held: in the year 18 AH.
Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr said: he was thirty-eight years old.
Al-Wāqidī likewise gave this age and added that he died in the year 18 AH.
87 – ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿūd ibn Ghāfil ibn Ḥabīb al-Hudhalī* (ʿ)
son of Shamkh ibn Fār ibn Makhzūm ibn Ṣāhilah ibn Kāhil ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Tamīm ibn Saʿd ibn Hudhayl ibn Mudrikah ibn Ilyās ibn Muḍar ibn Nizār.
The erudite imam, jurist of the ummah, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Hudhalī, the Meccan, the Emigrant, the Badr veteran, and an ally of Banū Zuhrah.
He was among the earliest converts and one of the eminent scholars. He fought at Badr, undertook both migrations, and on the day of Yarmūk he was in charge of the spoils. His merits are plentiful, and he transmitted a vast body of knowledge.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Mūsā, Abū Hurayrah, Ibn ʿAbbās, Ibn ʿUmar, ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn, Jābir, Anas, and Abū Umāmah, together with a number of other Companions, and ʿAlqamah,
(*) Ahmad b. Hanbal, al-Musnad, vol. 1, pp. 374-384; Ibn Saʿd, Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kubra, part 3/1, p. 106; Khalifah b. Khayyat, Tabaqat, pp. 16, 126; idem, Tarikh, pp. 101, 166; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Saghir, p. 60; Ibn Qutaybah, al-Maʿarif, p. 249; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, vol. 5, p. 149; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlamaʾ al-Amsar, no. 21; Abu Nuʿaym, Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ, vol. 1, pp. 124-139; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istīʿab, vol. 7, p. 20; al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 1, pp. 147-150; al-Shirazi, Tabaqat, p. 43; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghabah, vol. 3, p. 384; al-Nawawi, Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ wa-l-Lughat, vol. 1, pp. 288-290; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, no. 740; al-Dhahabi, Duwal al-Islam, vol. 1, p. 54; idem, Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 2, p. 24; idem, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, vol. 1, p. 31; idem, al-ʿIbar, vol. 1, p. 33; idem, Tabaqat al-Qurraʾ, vol. 1, p. 33; al-Haythami, Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid, vol. 9, pp. 286-291; Ibn Fahd, al-ʿIqd al-Thamin, vol. 5, pp. 283-284; Ibn al-Jazari, Tabaqat al-Qurraʾ, vol. 1, p. 458; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 6, pp. 27-28; idem, al-Isabah, vol. 7, p. 209; Ibn Hajar al-Haytami, al-Nujum al-Zahira, vol. 1, p. 89; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 5; Khalasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 214; al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Kanz al-ʿUmmal, vol. 13, pp. 460-469; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 1, p. 38.