and they stood around him weeping. He said, “By Allah, I have not left you because I wished to be away from you, nor out of preference for any land over yours. Rather, this affair has arisen: men of Quraysh have gone forth in it—men who were neither its elders nor from its principal households. Now—by Allah—were the mountains of Mecca turned to gold and we spent them all in the cause of Allah, we would still not attain a single day of what they have attained. So we hope to share with them in the Hereafter. Let every person, therefore, fear Allah (1).”
He then marched as a combatant toward Syria; his household followed him, and he fell there as a martyr—may Allah be pleased with him.
- ʿUrwah, the son of the disciple (ḥawārī) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ—and of his paternal aunt Ṣafiyyah—namely al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām ibn Khuwaylid ibn Asad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn Quṣayy ibn Kilāb: the imam, the scholar of Medina, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Qurashī al-Asadī al-Madanī, the jurist, one of the Seven Jurists.
He transmitted a few reports from his father because of his young age, and he narrated from his mother, Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq; from his maternal aunt, the Mother of the Believers ʿĀʾishah—whom he closely accompanied and from whom he learned jurisprudence; and from Saʿīd ibn Zayd, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Sahl ibn Abī Ḥathmah, Sufyān ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Thaqafī, Jābir, al-Ḥasan, al-Ḥusayn, Muḥammad ibn Maslamah, Abū Ḥumayd, and Abū