Asmaʾ bint ʿUmays gave birth to him during the Farewell Pilgrimage, while she was in the state of ihram (1).

ʿUthmān had previously appointed him governor of Egypt—as detailed in his biography—but he later set out to besiege ʿUthmān and carried out a momentous deed, becoming one of those who burst in upon ʿUthmān until the latter was killed. He then joined ʿAlī and was counted among his commanders. ʿAlī dispatched him to assume the governorship of Egypt in the year 37 AH, during the month of Ramadan. There he came up against Muʿāwiyah’s army; Muḥammad’s forces were routed, and he hid in the house of an Egyptian woman who informed on him.

He pleaded, “Safeguard me for Abu Bakr’s sake.” Muʿāwiyah ibn Ḥudayj retorted, “You slew eighty of my people in the blood of the martyr ʿUthmān, and you expect me to spare you when you were his killer!” He then killed him, stuffed the body into the belly of a dead donkey, and burned it.

ʿAmr ibn Dīnār said, “Muḥammad was brought captive to ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, who executed him—on account of ʿUthmān.” I (the author) say: Among those who transmitted from him was his son, al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad the jurist.

105 – ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Ṭalḥah, the son of Abu Ṭalḥah—Zayd ibn Sahl al-Ansārī*—grandson of al-Aswad ibn Ḥarām al-Ansārī, and the maternal half-brother of Anas ibn Mālik (2).