Ṭulayb (1) ibn ʿUmayr ibn Wahb ibn Kabīr (2) ibn ʿAbd (3) ibn Quṣayy, a Qurashi of the ʿAbdī clan—his mother was Arwā bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, the Prophet’s ﷺ aunt—embraced Islam at an early date. He took part in the second migration to Abyssinia and was present at Badr, as related by Ibn Isḥāq, al-Wāqidī, and al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār. It is also said that he was the first man to strike a polytheist: when Abū Jahl reviled the Prophet ﷺ, Ṭulayb struck him with the jawbone (4) of a camel and split his head. Ṭulayb was martyred at Ajnādayn when he was already advanced in years—may Allah be pleased with him.
ʿAbd Allāh (5) ibn al-Zubayr ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim, a Qurashi (Hāshimid) and the Prophet’s ﷺ cousin, was counted among the celebrated warriors and famously brave men. He fell at Ajnādayn after killing, in single combat, ten Roman fighters, all of them valiant patrician commanders. He was then in his mid-thirties.
ʿAbd Allāh (6) ibn ʿAmr al-Dawsī was killed at Ajnādayn as well. (This individual is otherwise unknown.)
ʿUthmān (7) ibn Ṭalḥa al-ʿAbdarī al-Ḥajabī is sometimes said to have been killed at Ajnādayn, but the sounder report is that he lived on until after the year 40 AH.
= He said: “A she-camel was gifted to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he commanded me to milk it. I milked it and strained to do so, then he said: ‘Leave the teat (the part of the udder from which the milk flows).’ Its isnād (chain of transmission) is weak.
(1) Biography of Ṭalīb ibn ʿUmayr, in al-Istiʿāb (p. 772) and Tārīkh Dimashq (vol. 25, p. 142), Dar al-Fikr edition; also in Asad al-Ghabah (vol. 3, p. 94) and al-Iṣābah (vol. 2, p. 233). He is variously called Ṭalīb ibn ʿUmayr (diminutive) or ʿAmr.
(2) In one manuscript it appears as “Wahb ibn Kathīr,” in another as “Wahb ibn Abī Kathīr”—both are scribal errors. The correct reading is that found in al-Dhahabī’s autograph in Tārīkh al-Islām (folio 192 of the Aya Sophia volume), from which the compiler quotes; accordingly, Ibn Kathīr’s report should agree with Dhahabī. This reading is also attested by Ibn Saʿd in al-Ṭabaqāt (vol. 3, p. 123) and by Ibn Abī Ḥātim in al-Jarḥ wa al-Taʿdīl (vol. 4, p. 499). However, the genealogy in the isnād varies among sources: al-Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī (Nasab Quraysh, p. 256), Ibn Ḥazm (al-Jamhara, p. 128) and Ibn ʿAsākir (Tārīkh Dimashq, vol. 25, p. 142) record him as Ṭalīb ibn ʿUmayr ibn Wahb ibn ʿAbd (omitting “ibn Kathīr”), whereas Yūnus ibn Bukayr and others cite Ibn Isḥāq as giving “Ṭalīb ibn ʿUmayr ibn Wahb ibn Abī Kabīr ibn ʿAbd” (Tārīkh Dimashq, vol. 25, p. 146). The same is reported by Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr in al-Istiʿāb (vol. 2, p. 772) and by Ibn Ḥajar in al-Iṣābah (vol. 2, p. 233), ultimately tracing back to Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah and az-Zuhrī (Asad al-Ghabah, vol. 3, p. 94), with al-Fāsī elaborating in al-ʿAqd al-Thamīn (vol. 5, p. 73 [Bishār]).
(3) In one manuscript it reads “Hind,” a clear corruption.
(4) al-Liḥy: the jawbone that holds the teeth in the mouth of humans and animals. The term for the tongue is laḥā.
(5) Biography of ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr, in al-Istiʿāb (p. 904) and Tārīkh Dimashq (vol. 28, pp. 137–140); also in Asad al-Ghabah (vol. 3, p. 241) and al-Iṣābah (vol. 2, p. 308).
(6) Biography of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Dawsī, in al-Istiʿāb (p. 956); also in Asad al-Ghabah (vol. 3, p. 349) and al-Iṣābah (vol. 2, p. 351).
(7) Biography of ʿUthmān ibn Ṭalḥah, in al-Istiʿāb (p. 1034), Jāmiʿ al-Uṣūl (vol. 14, p. 514), Asad al-Ghabah (vol. 3, p. 578) and al-Iṣābah (vol. 2, p. 460).