and stripped him of his coat of mail. I took the matter to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, who ruled in my favor; I then sold it to Ḥāṭib ibn Abī Baltaʿah for seven uqiyyahs of silver.
Qatādah said: Abū Qatādah used to wear khazz (fine brocade). (1)
Al-Wāqidī remarked: I have found no disagreement, whether among Abū Qatādah’s children or the people of our city, that Abū Qatādah died in Madinah. (2)
Ibn Numayr reported: Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid told us, from Mūsā ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Yazīd al-Khatmī, who said: ʿAlī performed the funeral prayer over Abū Qatādah and pronounced seven takbīrs for him. (3)
88 – ʿAmr ibn ʿAbasah ibn Khālid ibn Ḥudhayfah al-Sulamī* (M, 4)
The imam and commander, Abū Najīḥ al-Sulamī al-Bajalī, was among the earliest Muslims; people used to say that he represented one-quarter of Islam. He narrated hadiths.
(1) Al-Tabarani relates in al-Kabir, no. 3273, through Muadh ibn Hisham—his father—Yunus—Ammar ibn Abi Ammar, who said: “I saw Zayd ibn Thabit, Ibn Abbas, Abu Hurayra and Abu Qatada wearing khizz cloaks with ornamental borders.” Al-Haythami comments in Majma al-zawaid, 5/145: “All its transmitters are those used by the Sahih collections.”
(2) Al-Mustadrak, 3/480.
(3) All the narrators are trustworthy. The same report appears in the Musannaf of Ibn Abi Shayba, 3/304, through Ibn Numayr and Waki, both from Ismail ibn Abi Khalid, from Musa ibn Abd Allah ibn Yazid …
(*) Musnad Ahmad, 4/111, 384, 385; Tarikh Ibn Maʿin, 449; Tabaqat Ibn Saʿd, 4/214; Tabaqat Khalifa, 49, 302; al-Maʿarif, 290; al-Jarh wa-l-taʿdil, 6/241; al-Mustadrak, 3/616; al-Istiyab, 3/1192; Ibn ʿAsakir, 13/283/2; Jamiʿ al-usul, 9/116; Usd al-ghaba, 4/251; Tahdhib al-kamal, 1041; Tahdhib al-tahdhib, 8/69; al-Isaba, 7/127; Khulasat tadhhib al-kamal, 291.