As for al-Haytham ibn ʿAdiyy and al-Madāʾinī, they both said that he died in the year 40 AH. I add: he twice came as a delegate—once to Jabalah ibn al-Ayham and once to Muʿāwiyah. Ibn Saʿd states that he passed away during Muʿāwiyah’s rule.

107 – Kaʿb ibn Mālik ibn Abī Kaʿb ʿAmr al-Anṣārī (ʿA)

He is Kaʿb, the son of al-Qayn ibn Kaʿb ibn Suwād ibn Ghanm ibn Kaʿb ibn Salamah—an Anṣārī from the Khazraj tribe, one of the men of al-ʿAqabah and of Uḥud.

He was the Poet of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, his close companion, and one of the three who were left behind until Allah accepted their repentance.

He witnessed the pledge at al-ʿAqabah.

He transmitted a number of hadiths—about thirty in all. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim both relate three of them; al-Bukhārī alone narrates one, and Muslim two (1).

Those who reported from him include his sons—ʿAbd Allāh, ʿUbayd Allāh, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Muḥammad, and Maʿbad—the sons of Kaʿb, together with Jābir, Ibn ʿAbbās, Abū Umāmah, ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥakam, ʿUmar ibn Kathīr ibn Aflah, and others, as well as his grandson ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh.