and with my spear I hurled him from his mule, seized the animal’s rein with my hand, and spurred off⦗1⦘. They turned around, and when they saw that I was alone they pursued me. I ran a horseman through with the spear and killed him; then another approached and I killed him as well. After that I went to Khālid ibn al-Walīd and told him, and with him was a prominent Byzantine asking for safe-conduct for the people of Damascus⦗2⦘.

58 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Jazʾ al-Zubaydī * (D, T, Q)
A Companion, a scholar, and a centenarian—the leading shaykh of the Egyptians—Abū ʾl-Ḥārith al-Zubaydī al-Miṣrī.

He took part in the conquest of Egypt and settled there, becoming the last Companion to die in that land.

He transmitted a body of hadith, and leading imams narrated from him.

Among those who reported from him are: Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, ʿUqbah ibn Muslim, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Mughīrah, Sulaymān ibn Ziyād al-Ḥaḍramī, ʿAmr ibn Jābir al-Ḥaḍramī, and others.

Someone with no real knowledge claimed that Imām Abū Ḥanīfah met him and heard hadith from him. That claim rests on the report of a narrator accused of fabrication.

It is more likely that Abū Ḥanīfah took knowledge from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith al-Zubaydī of Kūfah, one of the Successors; this is conceivable. As for the Companion, Abū Ḥanīfah never saw him at all.

The fabricator further alleges that the Imām’s father took him on a journey during which he visited seven late-living Companions and heard from them directly, whereas the only sound report is that he saw Anas ibn Mālik when the latter came to Kūfah.