—and he denied my report, which plunged me into deep anxiety. My uncle said to me, “What have you achieved now that the Messenger of Allah has declared you a liar and has taken offense at you?”
Then Allah revealed: “When the hypocrites come to you they say, ‘We bear witness that you are indeed the Messenger of Allah.’ Allah knows that you are His Messenger, and Allah bears witness that the hypocrites are truly liars.” (Q 63:1)
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ summoned them, recited this verse to them, and then said, “Indeed, Allah has confirmed that you spoke the truth, O Zayd.” (1)
Shuʿbah narrated—from al-Ḥakam, from Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī—from Zayd ibn Arqam—a tradition of similar purport. (2)
Al-Madāʾinī and Khalīfah said: Zayd ibn Arqam died in the year 66 AH.
Al-Wāqidī and Ibrāhīm ibn al-Munḏir al-Ḥizāmī said: He passed away in Kūfah in the year 68 AH.
Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir devoted an extensive biographical entry to him. (3)
28 – Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, Saʿd ibn Mālik ibn Sinān * (ʿ)
The imam, mujahid, and mufti of Madinah: Saʿd ibn Mālik ibn Sinān ibn Thaʿlabah ibn
(1) Reported by al-Bukhari 8/494, 496, and 497 in the commentary on Surah al-Munafiqun; by Muslim (no. 2772) at the beginning of the chapter on the characteristics of the hypocrites; by Ahmad 4/373; and by al-Tabarani, no. 5050.
(2) Recorded in Sunan al-Tirmidhi, no. 3314, under Tafsir. Al-Tirmidhi said: “This hadith is hasan sahih (sound and authentic).”
(3) See his Tarikh 6/268a, 278a.
(*) Additional biographical sources: Khalifa’s Tabaqat, d. 601; al-Muhabbar 291, 429; al-Maʿarif 268; Mashahir ʿUlama al-Amsar, d. 26; al-Mustadrak 3/563; Jumhurat Ansab al-Arab 362; al-Tabarani’s Muʿjam al-Kabir 6/40; al-Istiʿab 602; Tarikh Baghdad 180; Tabaqat al-Shirazi 51; al-Jamʿ bayn Rijal al-Sahihayn 1/158; Ibn ʿAsakir’s Tarikh 7/90b; Usd al-Ghabah 2/289 and 5/211; Tahdhib al-Asma wa al-Lughat 1/2/237; Tahdhib al-Kamal 476; Tarikh al-Islam 3/220; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 1/41; al-ʿIbar 1/84; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 2/10b; al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat 15/148; Mirʾat al-Jinan 1/155; al-Bidayah wa-l-Nihayah 9/3; al-Isabah 2/35; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 3/479; al-Nujum al-Zahirah 1/192; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal 115; Shadharat al-Dhahab 1/81; Tahdhib Ibn ʿAsakir 6/110.