until he completed them in full. ⦗1⦘

Ibn Abī al-Dunyā relates: ʿAmr ibn Bukayr informed us, from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭāʾī, who said:

Usāmah came to Muʿāwiyah. Muʿāwiyah seated him beside himself, treated him kindly, and then stretched out his leg. Muʿāwiyah remarked, “May Allah have mercy on Umm Ayman! It is as though I can still see the shin of her leg in Mecca—like the shin of a mottled ostrich.”

Usāmah replied, “May Allah deal with you, Muʿāwiyah! By Allah, she is better than you!” Muʿāwiyah would then say, “O Allah, grant forgiveness.” ⦗2⦘

(The zunbūb is the protruding shin-bone, and a kharjāʾ ostrich is one whose plumage is streaked with white and black.)

He has, in Baqī’s Musnad, one hundred and eighteen hadiths. Of these, fifteen are recorded by both al-Bukhārī and Muslim, one appears only in al-Bukhārī, and two appear only in Muslim. ⦗3⦘

Al-Zuhrī said: “Usāmah died at al-Juruf.” ⦗4⦘

Al-Maqburī narrated: “I attended the funeral of Usāmah, and Ibn ʿUmar said, ‘Hasten with the beloved of the Messenger of Allah before the sun rises.’ ” ⦗5⦘

Ibn Saʿd said: “He passed away toward the end of Muʿāwiyah’s caliphate.” ⦗6⦘