Al-Thawri, reporting from ʿAbd Allah ibn Dinar, said:

When the people finally rallied behind ʿAbd al-Malik, Ibn ʿUmar wrote to him: “To proceed: I have pledged allegiance to ʿAbd Allah ʿAbd al-Malik, the Commander of the Believers, binding myself to listen and obey in accordance with the sunnah of Allah and the sunnah of His Messenger, as far as I am able. My sons, too, have affirmed this.” (1)

Shuʿbah, from Ibn Abī Rawwād, from Nāfiʿ:

Ibn ʿUmar instructed the man who was to wash his body, and the man began to rub him with musk. (2)

From Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allah: My father died in Mecca and was buried at Fakh in the year 74 AH, at the age of eighty-four. He had directed me to bury him outside the Sanctuary, but we were unable, so we interred him at Fakh, within the Ḥaram, in the cemetery of the Muhājirūn. (3)

Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said:

“I do not grieve over anything except that I did not fight against the rebellious faction.”

Al-Thawri transmitted it in this wording, and a similar report with further detail has already been cited.

As for ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Siyyāh, two trustworthy transmitters reported from him, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, that Ibn ʿUmar said: “I regret nothing I missed except that I did not fight alongside ʿAlī against the rebellious faction.”

This chain is interrupted.

Abū Nuʿaym said: “ʿAbd Allah ibn Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit narrated to us, from his father, who said—”