Muhammad ibn Saʿd (1) relates that on that very day Ṭulayb ibn ʿUmayr (2) was killed; his mother was Arwā bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, the paternal aunt of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

Among those slain that day as well was ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib. Al-Wāqidī (3) reports that he was thirty years old at the time, that he left behind no transmitted narrations, and that he was one of those who stood firm on the Day of Ḥunayn.

Ibn Jarīr adds that on that same day ʿUthmān ibn Ṭalḥa ibn Abī Ṭalḥa and al-Ḥārith ibn Aws ibn ʿAtīk were also killed (may Allah be pleased with them).

In that year as well, according to Khalīfa ibn Khayyāṭ (4), the battle of Marj al-Ṣuffar took place when twelve days of Jumādā al-Ūlā still remained. The army was commanded by Khālid ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ, who was killed that day. Some maintain it was actually his brother ʿAmr who was killed; others say it was his son—Allah knows best.

Ibn Isḥāq states that the Byzantine commander was Falaqat (5), and that so many Byzantines were slain that a millstone there was said to have been set turning by their blood. The sounder opinion, however, is that the engagement at Marj al-Ṣuffar occurred at the beginning of 14 AH, as will be mentioned later.

Those who passed away in this year—arranged alphabetically, following the listing of our teacher, the ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī, in his History (6)—include:

– Abān (7) ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Umayya al-Umayyī, Abū al-Walīd of Mecca. He was a distinguished Companion; it was he who granted safe-conduct to ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān on the day of al-Ḥudaybiyya so that he could enter Mecca and deliver the Messenger of Allah’s ﷺ message. Abān embraced Islam after his two brothers, Khālid and ʿAmr, returned from Abyssinia and invited him to the faith. They set out together and found that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had already conquered Khaybar. The Prophet ﷺ appointed him over Bahrain in the ninth year, and he was later killed at Ajnādīn.