He died in the year 58 AH (1).
In the Musnad of Baqī he is credited with fifty-five hadiths.
91 – Buraydah ibn al-Husayb ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Aslami* (ʿ)
The son of al-Hārith ibn al-Aʿraj ibn Saʿd. His kunya is Abū ʿAbd Allah, though others have reported it as Abū Sahl, Abū Sāsān, or Abū al-Husayb—all from the tribe of Aslam.
It is said that he embraced Islam in the year of the Hijrah, when the Prophet ﷺ passed by him on the emigration journey.
He witnessed the expedition of Khaybar and the Conquest, and on those occasions he carried the standard (2).
The Prophet ﷺ appointed him to oversee the alms collected from his clan.
After the death of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ he carried the banner of the commander Usāmah ibn Zayd when the latter campaigned against the Balqāʾ.
He transmitted a considerable number of hadiths; he settled in Marw and disseminated knowledge there.
Those who narrated from him include his two sons, Sulaymān and ʿAbd Allah; Abū Nadrah al-ʿAbdī; ʿAbd Allah ibn Mawla; al-Shaʿbī; Abū al-Malīḥ al-Hudhalī; and a number of others.
He lived in Basra for a time.
Later, in the days of ʿUthmān, he took part in the campaign to Khurāsān. Those who heard him relate that, beyond the river Jayḥūn, he used to say: