Among those who fell as martyrs at Muʾtah were:
• ʿAbbād ibn Qays al-Khazrajī, one of the veterans of Badr;
• al-Ḥārith ibn al-Nuʿmān ibn Asāf al-Najjārī;
• Masʿūd ibn Suwayd ibn Ḥārithah al-Anṣārī;
• Wahb ibn Saʿd ibn Abī Sarḥ al-ʿĀmirī;
• Zayd ibn ʿUbayd ibn al-Muʿallā al-Khazrajī, whose father had been slain at Uḥud;
• ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Umayyah al-Umawī—though some maintain that he was actually killed at al-Yamāmah;
• Abū Kilāb and Jābir, the two sons of Abū Ṣaʿṣaʿah al-Khazrajī—may Allah be pleased with them all.

The Prophet’s Envoys
In that same year the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent letters to the surrounding kings, inviting them to faith in Allah, Exalted is He.

Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah related—on the authority of Qatādah, from Anas—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, shortly before his death, wrote to Chosroes, to Caesar, to the Negus (meaning the ruler who succeeded the Muslim Negus in Abyssinia), and to every tyrant, calling them to Allah. Muslim transmitted this report.

The ḥadīth does not specify that the Prophet ﷺ wrote to the second Negus in the very year under discussion; on this point it remains silent. Rather, that correspondence occurred only after the death of the first, Muslim Negus, as will be noted under the events of the ninth year. Allah knows best.

Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd and Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān both narrated—from Ibn Shihāb—from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh—from Ibn ʿAbbās—that he informed him the Messenger of Allah ﷺ wrote to