by the Prophet ﷺ—that is, the fire of this world. (1)
Samura died in the year 58 AH; others say 59 AH.
Ibn al-Athir relates that he fell into a cauldron filled with boiling water which he was using as a remedy for chills, and he died in it.
Ziyād ibn Abīhi used to appoint him acting governor of Basra whenever he travelled to Kufa, and acting governor of Kufa whenever he set out for Basra.
He was uncompromising toward the Khārijites and killed a number of them.
Both al-Ḥasan and Ibn Sīrīn spoke highly of him—may Allah be pleased with him.
- Jābir ibn Samura ibn Junādah ibn Jundub al-Suʾāʾī (ʿ)
Kunya: Abū Khālid al-Suʾāʾī; some say Abū ʿAbd Allah.
He enjoyed well-known Companionship and narrated many hadiths. He also reported from ʿUmar, Saʿd, Abū Ayyub, and his own father.
He was present at the sermon delivered in al-Jābiya and later resided in Kufa.
Those who transmitted from him (2) include al-Shaʿbī, Tamīm ibn Ṭarafa, Simāk ibn Ḥarb, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, and Abū—
(1) In the author’s Tarikh, 2/291, he writes: “If this is sound, then—God willing—the Prophet’s saying ‘akhirukum mawtaan fi al-nar’ (the last of you to die will be in the Fire) refers to his death occurring in the Fire, not to his very person.”
(*) Principal biographical sources: Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat al-kubra 6/24; Khalifah, al-Tabaqat, nos. 397 and 894; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-kabir 2/205; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-taʿdil 2/493; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿulamaʾ al-amsar, no. 304; al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak 3/617; Ibn Hazm, Jamharat ansab al-ʿArab, 273; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istiyʿab 224; al-Khateeb al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad 1/186; al-Kalabadhi, al-Jamʿ bayna rijal al-sahihayn 1/72; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh Dimashq 3/307 b; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-ghabah 1/254; al-Nawawi, Tahdhib al-asmaʾ wa-l-lughat 1/1/142; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-kamal 181; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam 3/2 and al-ʿIbar 1/74; Tadhhib al-tahdhib 1/99 a; Ibn Hajar, al-Isabah 1/212 and Tahdhib al-tahdhib 2/39; al-Tabarani, al-Muʿjam 2/212, 287; al-Khazraji, Khulasat tadhhib al-kamal 50; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-dhahab 1/74; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tahdhib 3/388.
(2) The printed edition has the preposition ʿan (“from”) instead of the phrase haddatha ʿanhu (“reported from him”).