143 — Shaqīq ibn Thawr, Abū al-Faḍl al-Sadūsī *

The commander Abū al-Faḍl al-Sadūsī was the foremost man of Bakr ibn Wāʾil after the coming of Islam. He was their leader on the Day of Ṣiffīn at ʿAlī’s side, and again on the Day of the Camel.

He narrated from ʿUthmān and ʿAlī.
Transmitters from him include Abū Wāʾil and Khalād ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.

He once came to Muʿāwiyah as a tribal delegate.

His father was killed during the conquest of Tustar.

It is said that when Shaqīq lay on his death-bed he declared, “Would that he had never become chief of his people, for how much falsehood we confirmed and how much truth we invalidated!” (1)

He died in the year 65 AH.

144 — al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī, the liar **

His father was the commander Abū ʿUbayd ibn Masʿūd ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿUmayr ibn ʿAwf ibn ʿUqda ibn ʿAnaza ibn ʿAwf ibn Thaqīf. He embraced Islam during the Prophet’s lifetime, Allah bless him and grant him peace, yet no Companionship is known for him.

ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb put him in command of an army, with which he campaigned in Iraq, and the Battle of Abū ʿUbayd’s Bridge is attributed to him.