ʿImrān ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Zuhrī, who said:

“It has reached me that Jarīr said: ‘ʿAlī sent me to Muʿāwiyah, commanding him to give the pledge of allegiance. I set out, thinking no one had preceded me to him, but when I arrived I found him addressing the people, who were weeping around ʿUthmān’s shirt, suspended from a spear.’ (1)

Ibn Saʿd reported that Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar said: ‘Jarīr kept himself apart from both ʿAlī and Muʿāwiyah in al-Jazīrah and its environs until he died at al-Sharāt, during the governorship of al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Qays over Kūfah.’ (2)

Abū Nuʿaym and al-Firyābī narrated: Abān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bajalī told us; Ibrāhīm ibn Jarīr told me, from his father, who said:

‘ʿAlī sent to me Ibn ʿAbbās and al-Ashʿath while I was in Qirqīsiyā. They said, “The Commander of the Believers sends you greetings of peace and says: ‘Your decision to part from Muʿāwiyah is praiseworthy, and I now grant you the same rank that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ once accorded you.’”

Jarīr replied, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent me to Yemen to fight its people until they declared, ‘There is no deity but Allah.’ Once they said it, their blood and property became inviolable. Therefore, I will not fight anyone who says, ‘There is no deity but Allah.’” (3)’

Al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī said: Jarīr lost his eye in Hamdān when he was its governor on behalf of ʿUthmān.

Al-Haytham, Khalīfah, and Muḥammad ibn Muthannā said: Jarīr died in the year 51 AH.

Ibn al-Kalbī said: He died in the year 54 AH.