He narrated from ʿUmar, ʿAlī, ʿUthmān, Talhah, al-Zubayr, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, al-ʿAbbās, Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, and a number of others.

Transmitters who reported from him include: al-Zuhrī, Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, ʿIkrimah ibn Khālid, Abū al-Zubayr, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥalḥalah, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAṭāʾ, Salamah ibn Wardān, and many more.

He witnessed the gathering at al-Jābiya and the conquest of Jerusalem alongside ʿUmar.

Al-Zuhrī said, “Mālik ibn Aws informed me that ʿUmar summoned him.” He continued, “I entered and found him seated on the sand-covered frame of his bed, with no mattress between him and the sand. He said:

‘O Mālik, some desert folk from your tribe have arrived in Madinah. I have allotted them a stipend, so divide it among them.’

I replied, ‘Would that you had entrusted this to someone else.’

He said, ‘Distribute it, man!’ (1)

Al-Bukhārī (2) remarked: ‘Concerning Mālik ibn Aws, some claim he was a Companion, but this is unsound.’ He also noted, on the authority of al-Wāqidī, that Mālik ‘rode horses in the pre-Islamic period.’

Ibn Isḥāq transmitted—through Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAṭāʾ—from Mālik ibn Aws, who said, ‘I served as a headman (ʿarīf) during ʿUmar’s caliphate.’

Ibn Khirāsh and others declared him reliable.

I (the author) add: He was renowned for eloquence and clarity of speech, yet he narrated only a few hadiths.

Abū Ḥafṣ al-Fallās and several others stated that he died in the year 92 AH.

I further suggest that he may have lived one hundred years.

Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir mentioned him in his History.

63 – ʿUmar ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Maʿmar, Abū Ḥafṣ al-Taymī *

The emir, Abū Ḥafṣ al-Taymī, one of the notables of Quraysh. He was generous,