in Islam after the Hijrah, as al-Bukhārī related from the child’s mother, Asmāʾ, and his maternal aunt, ʿĀʾishah—Mother of the Believers—both daughters of the Truthful One, Abū Bakr (may Allah be pleased with them both).

Some people say that al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr was born six months earlier; according to that view, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr would be the first child born after the Hijrah among the Emigrants. Others maintain that both infants were born in the second year after the Hijrah, but the more apparent opinion is the first, as we have already explained—and to Allah belong all praise and favor. We shall cite the second opinion at the close of our account of the second year, if Allah Most High so wills.

Ibn Jarīr says: It has also been reported that al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd and Ziyād ibn Sumayya were born in this same year. Allah knows best.

Among the Companions who died in this first year were Kulthūm ibn al-Hidm al-Awsī—whose house in Qubāʾ accommodated the Messenger of Allah ﷺ until he moved to the quarters of Banū al-Najjār, as mentioned earlier—and, later that year, Abū Umāmah Asʿad ibn Zurārah, the leader of Banū al-Najjār, who passed away while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was building the mosque, as already noted. May Allah be well-pleased with them both.

Ibn Jarīr also states: In this very year—the first after the Hijrah—Abū Uḥayḥah died on his estate in al-Ṭāʾif, and al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīrah and al-ʿĀṣ ibn Wāʾil al-Sahmī died in Mecca.

I say: These men died in their polytheism; they never submitted to Allah, exalted is He.