and Usayd ibn Hudayr died in Shaʿbān, and Zaynab bint Jahsh, Mother of the Believers—the first of the Prophet’s wives to pass away—may Allah be pleased with her.
He said: In that same year Heraclius died and was succeeded by his son Constantine.
He said: ʿUmar led the people in the pilgrimage that year, and his deputies and judges were the same as in the previous year, except for those whom we have mentioned he dismissed and replaced.

Record of the notable persons who died this year

Usayd ibn al-Ḥuḍayr 1 ibn Simāk al-Anṣārī al-Ashhalī of the Aws, Abū Yaḥyā: one of the twelve chiefs on the Night of ʿAqabah. His father was the leader of the Aws on the day of Buʿāth, six years before the Hijrah, and was nicknamed Ḥuḍayr al-Katāʾib (“marshal of the battalions”). It is said that Usayd accepted Islam at the hands of Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr. After the Emigrants arrived, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ made him a brother to Zayd ibn Ḥārithah, and he did not take part in Badr. In the hadith authenticated by al-Tirmidhī 2, on the authority of Abū Hurayrah, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “What an excellent man is Abū Bakr, what an excellent man is ʿUmar, what an excellent man is Usayd ibn Ḥuḍayr,” and he mentioned others as well. Usayd accompanied ʿUmar to Syria, and ʿĀʾishah—may Allah be pleased with her—praised him, together with Saʿd ibn Muʿādh and ʿAbbād ibn Bishr. Ibn Bukayr reported that he died in Madinah in 20 AH; ʿUmar carried his bier between its poles, led the funeral prayer over him, and he was buried in al-Baqīʿ. Al-Wāqidī, Abū ʿUbayd, and others likewise dated his death to 20 AH.

Unays ibn Marthad (ibn Abī) Marthad al-Ghanawī 3: he, his father, and his grandfather were all Companions. This Unays served as a scout for the Messenger of Allah on the day of Ḥunayn. It is said 4 that he was the Companion to whom the Prophet ﷺ said, “Go, O Unays, to this man’s wife; if she confesses, then stone her.” 5 The sounder view, however, is that it was someone else, for the report states that the Prophet “spoke to a man from the tribe of Aslam,” and it has been suggested that that man was Unays ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk.