Al-Kalbī said, “Masrūq’s hand became paralyzed on the day of al-Qādisiyyah, and he was later afflicted by an āmah (1).

Wakīʿ remarked, “Those who held back from supporting ʿAlī were Masrūq, al-Aswad, al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym (2), and Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī.”

It is also reported that he witnessed the engagement at Ṣiffīn: he exhorted and warned the people but did not fight.

Another account says he fought alongside ʿAlī against the Ḥarūriyya and afterwards sought Allah’s forgiveness for having delayed his support of ʿAlī.

A further view holds that his grave is at al-Silsila, in Wāsiṭ.

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal narrated that Ibn ʿUyayna said, “After ʿAlqama there was no one left who could be preferred to Masrūq.”

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “Masrūq is reliable; no inquiry is needed about someone of his stature.”

ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd asked Yaḥyā about Masrūq and ʿUrwa with respect to their narrations from ʿĀʾisha, and he showed no preference between them.

ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī stated, “I place no one ahead of Masrūq among the companions of ʿAbdullāh. He prayed behind Abū Bakr, met ʿUmar and ʿAlī, and did not transmit anything from ʿUthmān (3).”

Al-ʿIjlī said, “He was a Successor, trustworthy, and one of ʿAbdullāh’s students who taught the Quran and issued legal verdicts.”

He would pray until his feet became swollen.

Ibn Saʿd (4) said, “He was reliable and possessed sound narrations.”

Reported by Saʿīd ibn ʿUthmān al-Tanūkhī of Ḥimṣ: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Sāmī narrated to us, al-Thawrī from Fiṭr ibn Khalīfa from al-Shaʿbī, who said:

“Masrūq once fainted on a scorching summer day. ʿĀʾisha had adopted him, so he named his daughter ʿĀʾisha, and he was…"