He said, “Your request?” She replied, “That you gather my bones together with the bones of my children.” He said, “That is granted to you, for you do have a right upon us.” He then flung her children into the bronze cow one after another, until only a small child remained. The child said, “Mother, remain steadfast, for you are upon the truth.” (1)

Ibn ʿAbbās said: “Four infants spoke: the child of Pharaoh’s hairdresser, the child of Jureyj, Jesus son of Mary, and a fourth whose name I do not recall.”

31 – Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah ibn Abī ʿAyyāsh al-Qurashī, their freedman * (ʿ)

An imām, reliable, highly esteemed; Abū Muḥammad al-Qurashī, their client, al-Asadī, al-Miṭraqī, the freedman of the household of al-Zubayr. Some nevertheless say that he was in fact the freedman of the woman Companion Umm Khālid bint Khālid al-Umawiyyah, the wife of al-Zubayr.

He was thoroughly versed in the Prophet’s military campaigns and compiled them in a single volume, being the very first to author such a work.

He was the brother of Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUqbah and Muḥammad ibn ʿUqbah, and the uncle of Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm.

He met Ibn ʿUmar and Jābir, and he narrated from Umm Khālid.

In terms of classification, he belongs to the younger Successors.

He also narrated from ʿAlqamah ibn Waqqāṣ, Abū Salamah, Kurayb, Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Hurmuz al-Aʿraj, Nāfiʿ ibn Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim, Nāfiʿ the freedman of Ibn ʿUmar, Ṣāliḥ the freedman of al-Tawʾamah, ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr, ʿIkrimah, and Ibn al-Munkadir,