Among the last of the younger Companions:
40 – ʿAbd Allah ibn Yazid ibn Zayd ibn Husayn al-Khatmi * (ʿ (1))
A governor, a man of learning and consummate virtue, Abū Mūsā al-Anṣārī, of the Aws clan, from the Khatm tribe—originally of Medina, later of Kūfa.
He was one of those who gave the Pledge of Riḍwān, being seventeen years old at the time.
He transmitted hadiths from the Prophet ﷺ, as well as from Zayd ibn Thābit and Hudhayfah ibn al-Yamān.
Narrations from him were carried by his grandson ʿAdiyy ibn Thābit, al-Shaʿbī, Muḥārib ibn Dithār, Abū Isḥāq al-Sabiʿī, and others.
Misʿar reports from Thābit ibn ʿUbayd (2):
“I saw ʿAbd Allah ibn Yazid wearing a gold ring and a brocaded cloak.”
Al-Wāqidī said: “Jahḥāf ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us, from ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar, from Maḥmūd ibn Labīd, that when the elephant knelt upon Abū ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī on the Day of the Bridge (3),
(*) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 6/18; Khalifa, Tabaqat, no. 935; Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿrifa wa-l-tarikh, 1/262; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-taʿdil, 5/197; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istiyab, 1001; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-ghaba, 3/274; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-kamal, 755; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 3/240; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-tahdhib, 2/195b; Ibn Hajar, al-Isaba, 2/382; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-tahdhib, 6/78; Khalil, Khulasat tadhhib al-kamal, 185.
(1) The manuscript reads “Husayn” with a final ya, and the same form appears in Tahdhib al-kamal and the works derived from it. Usd al-ghaba, al-Istiyab, and al-Isaba, however, spell the name “Husn,” without the ya.
(2) He is Thabit ibn ʿUbayd al-Ansari, the client (mawla) of Zayd ibn Thabit, a trustworthy transmitter whose hadiths are included by Muslim. In the manuscript the name “ʿUbayd” has been garbled as “ʿUtba.” The report is cited by Ibn Hajar in Fath al-bari, 10/267, who attributes it to Ibn Abi Shayba.
(3) The author writes in al-ʿIbar, 1/17: “In that year—that is, the fourteenth year (A.H.)—the Battle of Abu ʿUbayd’s Bridge took place, and a number of people were martyred, among them Abu ʿUbayd ibn Masʿud al-Thaqafi, after whom the bridge was named, and he was among …”