—and thus he might afterwards be appointed, so ʿUmar left him out for that reason. Yet Saʿīd is one of the ten for whom the Messenger of Allah ﷺ testified to Paradise, as several sound hadiths confirm.
After the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed away he never held any official post, and he remained so until he died in Kufah—although it is also said that he died in Madinah, and that view is stronger. Al-Fallas and others said this occurred in the year 51 AH [another view: 52 AH] (1); Allah knows best.
He was a tall, hirsute man. Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ washed his body, and he was carried from al-ʿAqīq on the shoulders of the men to Madinah. On that day he was seventy-odd years old.
As for ʿAbd Allah ibn Unays al-Juhanī (2), Abū Yaḥyā al-Madani, he was an eminent Companion. He attended the Pledge of al-ʿAqabah, did not witness Badr, but was present at the battles that followed, and he and Muʿādh used to smash the idols of the Anṣār.
In the Ṣaḥīḥ there is his hadith that Laylat al-Qadr is the twenty-third night (3).
He is also the one whom the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent against Khālid ibn Sufyān al-Hudhalī; he killed him at ʿUrana (4). The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then gave him a mikhṣarah (short staff) (5) and said, “This will be the sign between you and me on the Day of Resurrection.” He ordered that it be buried with him in his shroud (6).
Ibn al-Jawzī stated that he died in the year 51 AH. Others said: 54 AH [and it has also been said: 58 AH] (7), while another report gives 80 AH. Allah knows best.
As for Abū Bakrah Nufayʿ ibn al-Ḥārith (8) ibn Kaladah ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿIlāj ibn Abī Salamah al-Thaqafī, he too was a Companion—