Hisham ibn Saʿd reported—through ʿUthman ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Rafiʿ—who said:
“When Rafiʿ passed away, his bier was brought out while Medina was being governed by a Bedouin during the period of civil strife. The body arrived before sunrise, so Ibn ʿUmar said, ‘Do not perform the funeral prayer over him until the sun has risen.’”
Al-Waqidi also transmitted—from one of the descendants of Rafiʿ ibn Khadij, on the authority of Bishir ibn Yasar—who said:
“Rafiʿ ibn Khadij died at the beginning of the year 74 AH, at the age of eighty-six.” (1)
- Samura ibn Jundub ibn Hilal al-Fazari (ʿ)
He was among the learned Companions and later settled in Basra.
He left behind a number of sound narrations.
Those who reported from him include his son Sulayman, Abu Qilaba al-Jurmi, ʿAbd Allah ibn Burayda, Abu Rajaʾ al-ʿAtaridi, Abu Nadra al-ʿAbdi, al-Hasan al-Basri, Ibn Sirin, and many others.
The scholars differ over the extent to which the hadiths that al-Hasan al-Basri transmitted from Samura may be used as legal proof.
(1) In the base manuscript a blank of roughly half a line appears after the word “qala” (“he said”); the missing passage has been restored from al-Mustadrak, 3/562.
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