ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah reported—through Abū Wāʾil, from Abū Mūsā—that the Prophet ﷺ said: “O Allah, place ʿUbayd Abū ʿĀmir above most people on the Day of Resurrection.”
He was killed on the day of Autās, and Abū Mūsā slew the man who had killed him.
Al-Jurayrī narrated—through Qasāmah ibn Zuhayr, from Abū Mūsā—who said: “Dig my grave deep.” (1)
83 – Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī Khālid ibn Zayd ibn Kulayb * (ʿ)
He was of the Khazraj tribe, from the clan of al-Najjār, a participant at Badr and a distinguished notable. The Prophet ﷺ honored him by lodging with him among Banū al-Najjār until the chamber of the Mother of the Believers Sawdaʾ was built and the Noble Mosque erected.
His full lineage is: Khālid son of Zayd son of Kulayb son of Thaʿlabah son of ʿAbd ʿAmr (2) son of ʿAwf son of Ghanm son of Mālik son of al-Najjār son of Thaʿlabah son of al-Khazraj.
(1) Ibn Saʿd, vol. 4, p. 116; its chain of transmitters is judged reliable.
(*) Musnad Ahmad, vol. 5, p. 113; Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat, vol. 3, pp. 484–485; Ibn Maʿin, Tarikh, p. 144; Khalifa, al-Tabaqat, pp. 89, 303; Khalifa, Tarikh, p. 211; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, vol. 3, pp. 136–137; Ibn Qutaybah, al-Maʿarif, p. 274; al-Fasawi, Tarikh, vol. 1, p. 312; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, vol. 3, p. 331; al-Tabarani, al-Muʿjam al-Kabir, vol. 4, p. 138; al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak, vol. 3, p. 457; al-Istibsar, pp. 69–70; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istiʿab, vol. 2, p. 424; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh, vol. 5, part 2, p. 213; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghabah, vol. 2, p. 94; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 357; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 2, p. 327; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, vol. 1, p. 56; al-Haythami, Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid, vol. 9, p. 323; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 3, pp. 90–91; Ibn Hajar, al-Isabah, vol. 3, p. 56; Ibn ʿAbd al-Hadi, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, pp. 100–101; al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Kanz al-ʿUmmal, vol. 13, p. 614; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 1, p. 57.
(2) In al-Tabaqat (vol. 3, p. 484) and Usd al-Ghabah (vol. 2, p. 94) the name appears as Ibn ʿAbd b. ʿAwf. Tahdhib al-Kamal (p. 357) records it as Ibn ʿAbd ʿAwf, while other versions give Ibn ʿAmr b. ʿAbd ʿAwf b. Ghanm, or Ibn ʿAbd ʿAwf b. Jashm b. Ghanm.