—and that is what troubles me.”

He died in Kūfah this same year, at the age of sixty-three; he was the first person to be buried outside Kūfah.

Khuzaymah b. Thābit (1) b. al-Fākih b. Thaʿlabah b. Sāʿidah al-Anmārī—known as Dhū’l-Shahādatayn, “the man of the two testimonies.” The banner of Banū Khatmah was in his hand on the day of the Conquest; he fought at Ṣiffīn alongside ʿAlī and was killed there—may Allah be pleased with him.

Sufaynah (2), the freedman of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. We have already given his biography among those freed by the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

ʿAbd Allah b. al-Arqam b. Abī al-Arqam (3) embraced Islam in the Year of the Conquest and served as a scribe before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He has been mentioned previously among the scribes of revelation.

ʿAbd Allah b. Budayl (4) b. Waraqāʾ al-Khuzāʿī was killed at Ṣiffīn. He had been commander of ʿAlī’s right flank, after which that command passed to al-Ashtar al-Nakhaʿī (5).

ʿAbd Allah b. Khabbāb b. al-Aratt (6) was born during the lifetime (7) of the Prophet ﷺ and was known for his piety. The Khārijites killed him (8), as we noted earlier under Nahrawān in this very year. When ʿAlī arrived he said to them, “Hand over his killers and you will be safe.” They replied, “We all killed him,” so he fought them.

ʿAbd Allah b. Saʿd b. Abī Sarḥ (9), another of the scribes of revelation, entered Islam early (and wrote revelation), then apostatized, and later returned to Islam in the Year of the Conquest. ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān—may Allah be pleased with him—granted him protection; he was ʿUthmān’s half-brother through their mother. His Islam thereafter was sound. ʿUthmān appointed him governor of Egypt after ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ; he campaigned in Ifrīqiyah and against the Nubians, and he took part in (10) the naval expedition of Dhāt al-Ṣawārī with