Amorium, accompanied by the Companions ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit, Abū Ayyūb, Abū Dharr, and Shaddād ibn Aws. In the same year Muʿāwiyah also opened Ascalon by means of a peace agreement.
He went on to say:
In that year Shurayḥ was the judge of Kūfah, while Kaʿb ibn Sūr (1) was the judge of Basrah.
He added:
Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī relates that Mālik narrated from al-Zuhrī that neither Abū Bakr nor ʿUmar appointed a chief judge.
Our teacher, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Dhahabī, states in his History (2), under the events of the year 23 AH: during it occurred the incident of Sāriyah ibn Zunaym.
In that same year Kirmān was conquered, its commander being Suhayl ibn ʿAdī; Sijistān was likewise taken, under the command of ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAmr; and Makrān was subdued, its commander al-Ḥakam ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ—the brother of ʿUthmān—this region belonging to the mountain districts. In that year too, Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī returned from the lands of Isfahān after opening them, and Muʿāwiyah launched the summer campaign until he reached Amorium.
[Qatādah ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Anṣārī al-Awsī] (4)
He then recorded the deaths that occurred in that year. Among them was Qatādah ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Anṣārī al-Awsī al-Ẓafarī, the uterine brother of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī and his senior. He was present at Badr, and on the Day of Uḥud his eye was struck and fell onto his cheek; the Messenger of Allah ﷺ returned it to its place, after which it became the soundest of his two eyes. He was counted among the renowned archers and served in ʿUmar’s vanguard when the latter came to Syria. According to the well-known report he died this year at the age of sixty-five, and ʿUmar descended into his grave; some, however, say he died the year before.
He next presented a detailed biography of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, extending at length, expanding and elaborating, bringing together many important purposes, copious benefits, and fine points. May Allah reward him with Paradise.
He then said:
Those who passed away during the caliphate of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (may Allah be pleased with him) include:
al-Aqraʿ ibn Ḥābis (5) ibn ʿIqāl ibn Muḥammad ibn Sufyān ibn Mujāshiʿ ibn Dārim ibn Mālik ibn Ḥanẓalah ibn Mālik ibn