of Jumada al-Ula, in the year 13 AH.
I have placed this hero beside the one before him because they share both the same name and the same bravery.
As for:
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ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr al-Asadi*
With the zāʾ pronounced openly, he belonged to the Asad branch of Khuzaymah. He was a Kufan and a celebrated poet whose verse is superb. He was the one who once praised Muʿawiyah, then came to Ibn al-Zubayr, who gave him nothing. So he said, “May Allah curse the camel that carried me to you,” and Ibn al-Zubayr retorted, “And its rider as well.” (1)
He later went to Iraq to visit Musʿab, and other reports about him exist. (2)
I mention him here solely for the sake of distinction.
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Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ ibn Kaʿb ibn ʿĀmir al-Laythī** (ʿ)
Another view states: Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn ʿAbd
(*) Khalifa, Tabaqat, no. 2593; Ibn Abi Hatim, Al-Jarh wa-l-Ta‘dil, 5/56; Abu l-Faraj al-Isfahani, Al-Aghani, 13/33; Ibn Hazm, Jamharat Ansab al-‘Arab, p. 195; Ibn ‘Asakir, Tarikh Dimashq, 9/149 b; Ibn Samurah, Tabaqat Fuqahaʾ al-Yaman, p. 51; Al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 3/364; Ibn Kathir, Al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 9/80; Al-Khazraji, Khizanat al-Adab, 1/345; Ibn ‘Asakir, Tahdhib Tarikh Dimashq, 7/423.
(1) Tahdhib Ibn ‘Asakir, 7/424; Al-Bidaya, 9/80-81. – Here the particle in means “yes.” Cf. Al-Mughni, 1/38.
(2) The author states in his Tarikh, 3/264: “It is said that he died during the governorship of Al-Hajjaj.”
(* *) Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqat, 7/407; Khalifa, Tabaqat, nos. 181, 788, 1349, 2832; Al-Bukhari, Al-Tarikh al-Saghir, 1/184; Al-Jarh wa-l-Ta‘dil, 9/47; Al-Hakim, Al-Mustadrak, 3/569; Abu Nu‘aym, Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ, 2/21.