ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-ʿĀtikah said: “The enemy began pelting the people with naphtha, so Muʿāwiyah remarked, ‘Since they have done that, do the same to them.’ Both sides then started hurling it at one another. A Byzantine soldier readied himself to lob a cauldron(1) of it onto Abū al-Ghādiya’s ship, but Abū al-Ghādiya shot him with an arrow and killed him. The cauldron fell into their own vessel, which went up in flames with everyone aboard—three hundred men in all. People used to say, ‘One arrow from Abū al-Ghādiya killed three hundred souls.’ I have found no record of Abū al-Ghādiya’s death.

115 – Safwān ibn al-Muʿaṭṭal ibn Raḥaḍah ibn al-Muʾammal al-Sulamī *
Abū ʿAmr al-Sulamī, later called al-Dhakwānī, the man whose innocence in the affair of the Slander was proclaimed.

In that incident the Prophet ﷺ said about him, “I know nothing about him but good.”

He was riding in the rear guard of the army when he noticed the shape of a person. Drawing nearer, he saw that it was the Mother of the Believers ʿĀʾishah, who had gone off to relieve herself. Her necklace had broken, and she had returned to look for it. In the meantime the people set out, lifting her howdah in the belief that she was inside it—she was young, only twelve years old—and they moved on. ʿĀʾishah then returned to the campsite, found no one there, and sat down.