When he reached Madinah, Ibn al-Munkadir came to see him and asked, “How are you?”
He replied with the verse, “Indeed, we have encountered fatigue on this journey of ours.” (1) [al-Kahf: 63].
Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār said: More than one person related to me that ʿĪsā ibn Ṭalḥah came to ʿUrwah after his arrival. ʿUrwah said to one of his sons, “Uncover my leg for your uncle.” The son did so, and ʿĪsā said, “By Allah, Abū ʿAbd Allah, we never expected you to wrestle or to race. What we truly needed from you—your sound judgment and your knowledge—Allah has preserved for us.” ʿUrwah replied, “No one has consoled me as you have.” (2)
Ibn Khallikān (3) said: The best words of condolence offered to him came from Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah, who said:
“By Allah, you have no need of walking, nor any desire for running. A limb of yours and a son of yours have already preceded you to Paradise, and—if Allah wills—the whole will follow the part. Allah has left with us what we were in need of from you: your knowledge and your counsel. Allah is the guardian of your reward and the guarantor of your reckoning.”
Al-Zubayr stated: ʿUrwah passed away at the age of sixty-seven. (4)
Ibn al-Madīnī, Abū Nuʿaym, and Shabāb said that ʿUrwah died in 93 AH. Al-Haytham, al-Wāqidī, Abū ʿUbayd, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, and al-Fallās said in 94 AH. Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr said in 95 AH. Other dates have also been reported. It is even said he died in 101 AH, but that view carries no weight.
Our shaykh Abū al-Ḥajjāj mentions in his Tahdhīb, among ʿUrwah’s teachers: his mother Asmāʾ,