– Anasa (1), the freedman of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. The well-known report, related by al-Bukhari and others, is that he was killed at Badr. Al-Waqidi (2), however, quoting people of knowledge, asserted that he fought at Uhud and lived on for some time thereafter.
He said: Ibn Abi al-Zinad narrated to me from Muhammad ibn Yusuf that Anasa died during the caliphate of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and that his kunya was Abū Masrūḥ (3). Al-Zuhri (4) added: he was the one who used to grant people permission to enter upon the Prophet ﷺ.
– Tamīm (5) ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Qays al-Sahmi and his brother Qays were two eminent Companions who emigrated to Abyssinia, and they were killed at Ajnādīn.
– Al-Ḥārith (6) ibn Aws ibn ʿAtīk, likewise one of the Abyssinian emigrants, was also slain at Ajnādīn.
– Khālid (7) ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ al-Umawī was among the earliest converts and one of those who migrated to Abyssinia, where he remained for some thirteen years. It is said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ appointed him over Ṣanʿāʾ, and that Abu Bakr later placed him in command of certain expeditions, as mentioned earlier. According to one report he was killed on the day of Marj al-Ṣuffar; another states that he fled and that al-Ṣiddiq, by way of disciplinary action (8), would not allow him to enter Medina, so he stayed for a month (9) on its outskirts until he was given permission. It is also said that the man who killed him later embraced Islam, declaring, “When I struck him down I saw a light rising up to the sky.” May Allah be pleased with him.
– Saʿd (10) ibn ʿUbāda ibn Dulaym ibn Ḥāritha ibn Abī Ḥazīma (11)—and it is also said: Ḥāritha ibn Ḥazīma ibn Thaʿlaba ibn Ṭarīf ibn
(1) Entry – Anisah – in al-Isti‘āb (vol. I, pp. 337, 138); Asad al-Ghabah (vol. I, p. 156); al-Isabah (vol. I, p. 75).
(2) Tabaqāt Ibn Sa‘d (vol. III, p. 48).
(3) His sources variously give his kunya as Abu Masruh or Abu Misrah. Al-Dhahabi, in a marginal note on his Tarikh al-Islām (al-Taqyīdi bi-khațhih), standardized it as Musarrah (damma on mīm, fatḥ on sīn, kasra on the doubled r). Ibn Nuqṭah repeats this reading in Ikmāl al-Ikmāl (supplement to Ibn Makūlah), citing a manuscript of Abū Bakr ibn al-Khāḍhbah. Mus‘ab ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Zubayrī reports both variants, while Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī prefers the latter. (Tawḍīḥ, vol. VIII, p. 166).
(4) Tabaqāt Ibn Sa‘d (vol. III, p. 49).
(5) Entry – Tamīm ibn al-Ḥārith al-Sahmī – in al-Isti‘āb (vol. I, pp. 192–193); Asad al-Ghabah (vol. I, p. 257); al-Isabah (vol. I, p. 184).
(6) Entry – al-Ḥārith ibn Aws ibn ‘Uṭayq – in al-Isti‘āb (vol. I, p. 281); Asad al-Ghabah (vol. I, p. 379); al-Isabah (vol. I, p. 274), where he is called al-Ḥārith ibn Aws ibn ‘Atāb.
(7) Entry – Khālid ibn Sa‘īd ibn al-‘Āṣ – in al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr (vol. III, p. 152); al-Jarh wa al-Ta‘dīl (vol. III, p. 334); al-Isti‘āb (vol. II, p. 420); Jam‘ al-Uṣūl (vol. XIII, p. 414); Mukhtaṣar Tārīkh Dimashq (vol. VII, p. 344); Asad al-Ghabah (vol. II, p. 97); al-Isabah (vol. III, p. 58; vol. I, pp. 406–407); Siyar A‘lam al-Nubalā’ (vol. I, p. 259).
(8) In the printed edition: “ta‘zīzan,” a corrupt reading.
(9) In variant “a”: “ashharan.”
(10) Entry – Sa‘d ibn ‘Ubāda – in al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr (vol. IV, p. 44); al-Jarh wa al-Ta‘dīl (vol. IV, p. 88); al-Isti‘āb (p. 594); Jam‘ al-Uṣūl (vol. XIV, p. 168); Mukhtaṣar Tārīkh Dimashq (vol. IX, p. 235); Tahḏīb al-Asmā’ wa al-Lughāt (vol. VI, p. 92); Siyar A‘lam al-Nubalā’ (vol. I, p. 270); al-Isabah (vol. II, p. 30).
(11) In the ṭ recension: “Ibn Abī Khuzaymah,” also read “Ḥārithah ibn Khuzaymah”; in the a recension: “Ibn Abī Khuraymah,” also read “Ḥārithah ibn Khurum ibn Khuzaymah ibn …”