I see that every soul, however long it may live and thrive, has a draught of death’s poison in store.
Every person will taste the throes of dying; there is an hour in which he is humbled and brought low.
So the one who impresses you—do not deem yourself his equal unless you act as he used to act. (1)

Hammad ibn Zayd said: “Yunus was born before the Plague of al-Jārif.”

It was also said: “Yunus was one year older than Abū ʿAwn.”

Muḥammad ibn Saʿd stated: “Yunus died in 140 AH.”

Fahd ibn Ḥayyān said: “He died in 139.”

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī said: “I saw Sulaymān and ʿAbd Allāh, the two sons of ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, together with Sulaymān’s two sons, carrying the bier of Yunus ibn ʿUbayd on their shoulders. ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī exclaimed, ‘By Allah, this is true honor!’”

I (the author) say: After ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī had been pledged allegiance as caliph in Syria and elsewhere, he fought a pitched battle against Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī. ʿAbd Allāh’s army was routed, and he fled to his brother Sulaymān, the governor of Basra, who granted him protection from al-Manṣūr.

As for the other Yunus ibn ʿUbayd, he is an obscure shaykh, one of the freedmen of Thaqīf.

He transmitted from al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib the report: “The banner of Allah’s Messenger ﷺ was black, fashioned from a patched cloth.” (2)

No one narrated this from him except Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Thaqafī.

It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and Ibn Mājah.