Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb al-Abrash narrated: Sulaymān (1) ibn Sulaym told us, from Ṣāliḥ ibn Yaḥyā, from his grandfather al-Miqdām, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “You will prosper, O Qudaym, if you die without ever having been a governor, a tax-collector, or a tribal chief (2).”
A number of authorities state that he died in the year 87 AH. Abū Ḥafṣ al-Fallās added: he was ninety-one years old. It is also said that his grave is in Ḥimṣ. ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī said: he died in the year 88 AH.
76 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Awfā ʿAlqamah ibn Khālid ibn al-Ḥārith al-Aslamī * (ʿ)
The jurist, the long-lived Companion of the Prophet ﷺ, Abū Muʿāwiyah.
It is also said: Abū Muḥammad, and it is said: Abū Ibrāhīm al-Aslamī, the Kufan.
He was among those who pledged allegiance at al-Riḍwān and was the last of the Companions to die in Kūfa (3). His father was also a Companion.
(1) The base manuscript reads “Salim,” which is incorrect.
(2) Salih ibn Yahya is trustworthy, and the rest of the narrators are likewise reliable. The report is recorded in the Musnad, 4/133, and in Ibn Asakir, 17/80a. Qudaym is the diminutive of Muqdam. Main biographical references include: Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 4/301 and 6/21; Khalifa, Tabaqat, nos. 684 and 946; Ibn Habib, al-Muhabbar, 298; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 5/24; al-Fasawi, al-Maʿrifa wa-l-Tarikh, 1/265; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, 5/120; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlama al-Amsar, no. 320; Ibn Hazm, Jamharat Ansab al-Arab, 242; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istiʿab, 870; al-Dhahabi, al-Jamʿ bayna Rijal al-Sahihayn, 1/242; Ibn Asakir, Tarikh, 9/524a; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghaba, 3/182; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, 667; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 3/260; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, 1/101; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 2/132a; al-Yafiʿi, Mirʾat al-Jinan, 1/177; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 9/75; Ibn Hajar, al-Isaba, 2/279; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 5/151; Ibn Hajar, Khulasa Tadhhib al-Kamal, 162; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 1/96.
(3) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 4/302 and 6/21.