reciting (1) the Almighty’s words: “Was it not you who had sworn before that you would never perish?” (Ibrahim 14:44).

When night fell the Muslims struck camp and moved on to Bahrasir; whenever they halted they proclaimed the takbīr, and they continued thus until the rearguard, with Saʿd, had arrived. They remained there for two full months, entered the third, and the year came to an end.

Ibn Jarir (2) said: In that same year ʿUmar led the people in pilgrimage. His governor over Mecca was ʿAttab ibn Asid, over Syria Abu ʿUbaydah, over Kufah (3) and the rest of Iraq Saʿd, over Taʾif Yaʿla ibn Umayyah (4), over Bahrain and al-Yamamah ʿUthman ibn Abi al-ʿAs, and over ʿUman Hudhayfah ibn Mihsan (5).

I say: According to al-Layth ibn Saʿd, Ibn Luhayʿah, Abu Maʿshar, al-Walid ibn Muslim, Yazid ibn ʿUbaydah, Khalifah ibn Khayyat, Ibn al-Kalbi, Muhammad ibn ʿAʾidh, Ibn ʿAsakir, and our own teacher, the ḥāfiẓ Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Dhahabi (6), the Battle of Yarmuk took place in year fifteen AH, in the month of Rajab. Sayf ibn ʿUmar and Abu Jaʿfar ibn Jarir, however, dated the battle to year thirteen. We have already cited it there, following Ibn Jarir. Likewise, some scholars maintain that the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah occurred toward the close of that same year—year fifteen—and our teacher, the ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabi, followed them (7). The opinion more widely held is that it took place in year fourteen, as stated earlier. Our teacher al-Dhahabi then recorded (8):

[Those who died in that year, arranged alphabetically]

Saʿd (9) ibn ʿUbādah al-Ansari al-Khazraji—this is one of the historians’ opinions, already noted above.

Saʿd (10) ibn ʿUbayd ibn al-Nuʿman, Abu Zayd al-Ansari al-Awsami—killed at al-Qadisiyyah. It is said that he is Abu Zayd the reciter, one of the four who compiled the Qurʾan during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, though others dispute this. It is also said that he was the father of ʿUmayr ibn Saʿd.