Yarbūʿ, followed by Kharashah (1) ibn Saʿd ibn Ṭarīf ibn Jillān (2) ibn Ghanm ibn Ghanī ibn Aʿṣar (3) ibn Saʿd ibn Qays ibn Ghailān ibn Muḍar ibn Nizār. He is Abū Marthad al-Ghanawī. He and his son Marthad were present at Badr, and no other father-and-son pair took part in that battle. His son Marthad was martyred at al-Rajīʿ, as noted earlier. The son of his son, Unays ibn Marthad ibn Abī Marthad, was likewise a Companion; he witnessed the Conquest and Ḥunayn and served as the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—’s scout on the day of Awṭās. Thus they are three consecutive generations. Abū Marthad was also an ally of al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib.
Only one ḥadith is transmitted from Abū Marthad, in which the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—said:
“Do not pray facing graves, and do not sit upon them.”
[Related by Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and al-Nasāʾī through the chain of Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ] (4).
Al-Wāqidī stated that he died in the year twelve; others add that it was in Syria, and still others that he was over sixty-six years old. He was a tall man with abundant hair.
I say: to the south of Damascus there is a well-known tomb (5) identified as the grave of Kannāz ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, a Companion of the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him. I sensed at that place an air of spirituality and reverence, yet it is remarkable that the ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir made no mention of him in his History of Damascus. Allah knows best.
Among those who died in this same year was Abū al-ʿĀṣ (6) ibn al-Rabīʿ ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn ʿAbd Shams ibn ʿAbd Manāf ibn Quṣayy, the Qurashī al-ʿAbshamī. He was the husband of the Prophet’s—peace and blessings be upon him—eldest daughter, Zaynab. He treated her kindly and loved her dearly. When the idolaters ordered him to divorce her (7) after the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—had been sent, he refused. He was the nephew of Khadījah bint Khuwaylid; his mother was Hālah—some say Hind—bint Khuwaylid. There is disagreement over his given name: it is said to have been Laqīṭ, which is the most common view; others say Mihsham (9), and others Hushaym.
He fought at Badr on the side of the disbelievers and was taken captive. His brother ʿAmr ibn al-Rabīʿ came to ransom him, bringing with him a necklace that Khadījah had sent with her daughter Zaynab when Abū al-ʿĀṣ married her. When the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—saw it, he was deeply moved and released Abū al-ʿĀṣ because of it, on the condition that he send Zaynab to him in Madinah—a pledge he fulfilled. Abū al-ʿĀṣ remained a disbeliever in Makkah until shortly before the Conquest. On one occasion he set out on a Quraysh trading expedition and was intercepted by Zayd ibn Ḥārithah leading a detachment, and they killed a number of his companions