robust youths in the company of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. We learned faith before we learned the Quran; then, once we had learned the Quran, it only increased us in faith. (1)
Jundub al-Bajali—sometimes traced back to his grandfather—lived on until around the year 70 AH.
He is to be distinguished from:
31 – Jundub al-Azdi, Abū ʿAbd Allah * (t)
That is: Jundub ibn ʿAbd Allah; some say he was Jundub ibn Kaʿb. Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Azdi was a Companion of the Prophet ﷺ.
He transmitted from the Prophet ﷺ, and from ʿAlī and Salmān al-Farisī.
Those who reported from him include Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, al-Hasan al-Basrī, Tamīm ibn al-Ḥārith, and Ḥāritha ibn Wahb.
He came to Damascus and was known as Jundub al-Khayr; he is the one who killed the sorcerer.
Khālid al-Ḥaddāʾ narrated—from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī—that a magician was performing
(1) All its transmitters are trustworthy. Ibn Majah recorded it (no. 61, Introduction) through the chain of ‘Ali b. Muhammad—Waki‘—with this isnad. Al-Busiri states in al-Zawa’id, 6/1, that the chain is sound and its transmitters reliable. Al-Tabarani also transmits it (no. 1652) through two routes with the same isnad, and Ahmad (5/373) relates it via Bahz—Hammad b. Salama—Abu ‘Imran al-Juni—from Jundub, who said: “In the Prophet’s lifetime I was a hazur, a boy on the verge of puberty. So-and-so told me that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘On the Day of Resurrection the murdered person will appear clinging to his killer and will say, ‘‘Lord, ask him why he killed me.’’ He (the killer) will answer, ‘For the dominion of So-and-so…’” The term hazawira is the plural of hazur, meaning a boy approaching puberty; the final t is the feminine marker of the plural.
(*) Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 1/111a; Tarikh al-Islam 3/3; al-Isaba 1/250; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 55; Tahdhib Ibn ‘Asakir 3/413.