to a created being when it entails disobedience to the Creator.’⦗1⦘
He then proclaimed to the people, “Come at dawn to claim your booty,” and he distributed it among them, keeping back only the statutory one-fifth.
It is said that he was held under guard until he died in Marw during this same year; others place his death in 51 AH—may Allah have mercy on him.
As for Dihyah ibn Khalifah al-Kalbi⦗2⦘, he was a distinguished Companion, renowned for his handsome appearance; thus, Gabriel often came in his likeness. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ dispatched him to Caesar⦗3⦘. He embraced Islam early, though he was not present at Badr; he fought in every battle thereafter, took part in the Battle of Yarmuk, and settled in al-Mizzah—west of Damascus—until he died during the caliphate of Muʿawiyah.
In this same year also died ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Samurah⦗4⦘ ibn Ḥabīb ibn Rabiʿah⦗5⦘ ibn ʿAbd Shams al-Qurashi, Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAbshamī. He accepted Islam on the Day of the Conquest—though some maintain he was at Muʾtah—and he campaigned in Khurasan, conquering Sijistan, Kabul, and other territories. He owned a house in Damascus and resided in Basra, while another report says he lived in Marw.
(1) A sound hadith; see Musnad Ahmad 5:66.
(2) Tabaqat Ibn Sa‘d 4:249; Tarikh Khalifa, 79; Musnad Ahmad 4:311; Tarikh al-Bukhari al-Kabir 3:254; al-Maʿarif, 329; al-Jarh wa-l-Tadil, 249; al-Thiqat Ibn Ḥibbān 3:117; Mashahir Ulama al-Amsar (d.380); al-Mu‘jam al-Kabir 4:265; Jumharat Ansab al-ʿArab, 458; al-Isti‘āb 2:461; al-Ikmāl (Ibn Makūlā) 3:314; Ansab al-Simʿānī 10:452; Tarikh Ibn ʿAsākir 6:24b; Asad al-Ghabā 2:158; Tahdhib al-Asmā’ wa-l-Lughāt 1:185; Mukhtaṣar Tarikh Dimashq 8:159; Tahdhib al-Kamāl 8:473; Tarikh al-ʿIslām 2:222; Siyar A‘lam al-Nubalā’ 2:550; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 1 (fol.211); al-Kashif 1:225; Tajrīd Asmā’ al-Ṣaḥāba 1:165; Ikmāl Maghltāy 2 (fol.5); Nihāyat al-Sul (fol.91); Majma‘ al-Zawāʾid 9:378; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 3:206; al-Isābah 3:191; Khulāṣat al-Khazarjī, 112; ʿIlm al-Sā’ilīn 67–80 (2nd ed.); Tahdhib Ibn ʿAsākir 5:221.
(3) See ʿIlm al-Sā’ilīn, on Kitāb Sayyid al-Mursalīn, 67–80.
(4) Tabaqat Ibn Sa‘d 7:15, 366; Tarikh Ibn Muʿīn, 349; Tabaqat Khalīfa 11, 174; Tarikh Khalīfa, 211; Musnad Ahmad 5:61; Tarikh al-Bukhari al-Kabir 5:242; al-Maʿārif, 304; al-Maʿrifa wa-l-Tarikh 1:283; al-Jarh wa-l-Tadil 5:238; Mashahir Ulama al-Amsar (d.278); al-Mustadrak al-Hakim 3:444; al-Isti‘āb 2:835; Tarikh Ibn ʿAsākir 9:481a; Asad al-Ghabā 3:454; Mukhtaṣar Tarikh Dimashq 14:260; Tahdhib al-Kamāl (fol.795); Tarikh al-ʿIslām 2:231; Siyar A‘lam al-Nubalā’ 2:571; al-Kashif 2:149; al-ʿIbar 1:55; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 6:190; al-Isābah 6:284; Khulāṣat al-Khazarjī, 228; Shudhur al-Dhahab 1:244.
(5) The printed edition omits the word Rabi‘a, which is disputed among genealogists; see Asad al-Ghabā 3:454–455.