Some have said that he was the last of the veterans of Badr to pass away—Allah knows best. Muslim (1) records his reports, whereas al-Bukhari does not.
110 – Abū Usayd al-Saʿidi, Mālik ibn Rabīʿah ibn al-Badan * (ʿA)
One of the foremost leaders of the Anṣār.
He was present at Badr and at the other campaigns.
His full name is Mālik ibn Rabīʿah ibn al-Badan (2).
A number of hadith are transmitted from him.
He lost his sight toward the end of his life.
Those who narrated from him include his sons—al-Mundhir, Ḥamzah, and al-Zubayr—as well as ʿAbbās ibn Sahl ibn Saʿd, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Saʿid, Anas ibn Mālik, Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, his freedman ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd al-Saʿidi, and others.
He died in 40 AH, the view upheld by Ibn Saʿd and Khalīfah.
Al-Madāʾini placed his death in 60 AH—an unlikely dating—while Abū al-Qāsim ibn Mandah suggested 65 AH, which is even less plausible. Abū Ḥafṣ al-Fallās, on the other hand, said that he died in 30 AH.
(1) See hadith no. 3006 and 3007.
* Musnad Ahmad, vol. 3, p. 496; Ibn Maʿin, Taʾrikh, p. 692; Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, vol. 3, pp. 557-558; Khalifa, Tabaqat, p. 97; Khalifa, Taʾrikh, p. 166; al-Bukhari, al-Taʾrikh al-Kabir, vol. 7, p. 299; Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿarif, pp. 272, 588; al-Fasawi, Taʾrikh, vol. 1, p. 344; al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak, vol. 3, p. 515; al-Tusi, al-Istibsar, p. 106; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istīʿab, vol. 3, p. 1531; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghaba, vol. 5, p. 23; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 1298; al-Dhahabi, Taʾrikh al-Islam, vol. 2, p. 85; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, vol. 1, p. 46; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 10, pp. 15-16; Ibn Hajar, al-Isaba, vol. 9, p. 47; al-Khawarzimi, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 367.
(2) The name is vocalized with an open b and d, as indicated in Ibn Hajar’s al-Taqrib, and refers to a man descended from Bakr ibn Waʾil. Ibn Durayd states in al-Ishtiqaq (p. 340) that its root may derive either from the short coat of mail (dirʿ); some exegetes interpret the Qurʾanic phrase “Today We shall save you bi-badanik” (10:92) as “in your coat of mail.” He adds that al-badan also denotes an aged male ibex.