Al-Wāqidī said: Ḥajjāj ibn Ṣafwān narrated to us, from Ibn Abī Ḥusayn, from Shahr, from ʿAmr ibn ʿAbasah, who said:
“I had renounced the gods of my people. I then met a Jew from among the people of Taymāʾ and told him, ‘I am one of those who worship stones: a man abandons the Living One, and when he stops to camp he brings four stones—three he props up to hold his cooking-pot, and the finest of them he appoints as a god to worship.’
He replied, ‘A man will emerge from Mecca who rejects idols. When you see him, follow him, for he will bring the best religion.’
He continued: ‘So I traveled to Mecca and found him keeping his mission concealed, while Quraysh were treating him with the utmost hostility…’ He then reported the rest of the account in detail (1).

He likely died sometime after the year 60 AH—Allah knows best.

89 – Shaddād ibn Aws ibn Thābit ibn al-Mundhir ibn Ḥarām al-Anṣārī * (ʿ)
Also known as Abū Yaʿlā and Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Anṣārī al-Najjārī al-Khazrajī, he belonged to Banū Maghālah, a branch of Banū ʿAmr ibn Mālik ibn al-Najjār.

Shaddād was the nephew of Ḥassān ibn Thābit, the Poet of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (2).