“…Sakhīna boasts that she will overcome her Lord,
yet whoever would challenge the All-Conquering One shall surely be overcome.” (1)

Al-Haytham and al-Madāʾinī relate that Kaʿb died in 40 AH, while al-Wāqidī reports his death in 50 AH, and al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī likewise records it as 51 AH.

The story of “the repentance of the three” is recorded in the Ṣaḥīḥ (2), and Kaʿb’s verses on it are cited in the Sīra.

Al-Wāqidī further narrates: Ibn Abī Zinād told us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwa, from his father, who said:

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ established a bond of brotherhood between al-Zubayr and Kaʿb ibn Mālik (3).

Al-Zubayr said: ‘I once saw Kaʿb grievously wounded at Uḥud and thought, “If he were to die and depart this world, I would inherit from him”—until the verse was revealed: ‘Close relatives are more entitled to one another in the Book of Allah’ (Al-Anfāl 8:75).

From that moment on, inheritance belonged to kin and blood relatives, and the inheritances based on the pact of brotherhood ceased when the verse, “Close relatives…” (4) was sent down.’”