Letter Thāʾ

Thābit ibn Aqram ibn Thaʿlabah ibn ʿAdī ibn al-ʿAjlān;

Thābit ibn Thaʿlabah—this Thaʿlabah was also called al-Jadhʿ—ibn Zayd ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥarām ibn Kaʿb ibn Ghanm ibn Kaʿb ibn Salamah;

Thābit ibn Khālid ibn al-Nuʿmān ibn Khansāʾ ibn ʿUsayrah ibn ʿAbd ʿAwf ibn Ghanm ibn Mālik ibn al-Najjār, of the Banū al-Najjār;

Thābit ibn Khansāʾ ibn ʿAmr ibn Mālik ibn ʿAdī ibn ʿĀmir ibn Ghanm ibn ʿAdī ibn al-Najjār, of the Banū al-Najjār;

Thābit ibn ʿAmr ibn Zayd ibn ʿAdī ibn Sawād ibn Mālik ibn Ghanm ibn Mālik ibn al-Najjār, of the Banū al-Najjār;

Thābit ibn Hazzāl al-Khazrajī;

Thaʿlabah ibn Ḥāṭib ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿUbayd ibn Umayyah ibn Zayd ibn Mālik ibn al-Aws;

Thaʿlabah ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿUbayd ibn Mālik of the Banū al-Najjār;

Thaʿlabah ibn ʿAmr ibn Muḥṣin al-Khazrajī;

Thaʿlabah ibn ʿUtmah ibn ʿAdī ibn Nābi al-Sulamī;

Thaqaf ibn ʿAmr, of the clan of Ḥajr among the Banū Sulaym, an ally of Banū Kathīr ibn Ghanm ibn Dudān ibn Asad.

Letter Jīm

Jābir ibn Khālid ibn Masʿūd ibn ʿAbd al-Ashhal ibn Ḥārithah ibn Dīnār ibn al-Najjār, of the Banū al-Najjār;

Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Riʾāb ibn al-Nuʿmān ibn Sinān ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿAdī ibn Ghanm ibn Kaʿb ibn Salamah, of the clan of Salamah—he was one of those who pledged at al-ʿAqabah.

I say: As for Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥarām al-Salamī as well, al-Bukhārī includes him among them in the Musnad (1) on the authority of Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr, from Abū Muʿāwiyah, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Sufyān, from Jābir, who said: “On the Day of Badr I used to draw water for my companions.” This chain meets Muslim’s conditions, yet Muḥammad ibn Saʿd (3) reports: “I mentioned this ḥadīth to Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar—meaning al-Wāqidī—who said, ‘This is an error traceable to the people of Iraq,’ and he rejected the idea that Jābir was present at Badr.

Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (4) said: “Rūḥ ibn ʿUbadah narrated to us; Zakariyyā ibn Isḥāq narrated to us; Abū al-Zubayr narrated that he heard Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh say: ‘I took part in nineteen campaigns with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, but I was present at neither Badr nor Uḥud; my father kept me back. After my father was killed at Uḥud, I never again held back from any expedition of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.’”

Muslim (5) also transmitted it from Abū Khaythamah, from Rūḥ (6).