al-Saʿdī, on the authority of ʿUmar, concerning the stipends of public officials ⦗1⦘ in its entirety. This chain is unusual, for it joins together four Companions—may Allah be pleased with them.
Saʿīd ⦗2⦘ ibn Yarbuʿ ⦗3⦘, son of ʿAnkathah ibn ʿĀmir ibn Makhzūm.
He embraced Islam in the Year of the Conquest, was present at Ḥunayn, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ allotted him fifty camels from the spoils.
His original name was Ṣurmā—another report says Aṣram—and the Prophet renamed him Saʿīd.
He was among the group of men whom ʿUmar ordered to renew the boundary stones of the Sacred Precinct ⦗4⦘.
Later he lost his eyesight, and ʿUmar came to console him for that loss; this was recorded by al-Bukhārī ⦗5⦘.
Al-Wāqidī, Khalīfah ⦗6⦘, and others say he died this very year in Madinah—others say in Makkah—at the age of one hundred and twenty, while some give an even higher figure.
Murrah ibn Sharāḥīl al-Hamdānī ⦗7⦘, also called Murrah al-Ṭayyib and Murrah al-Khayr.
He narrated from Abū Bakr, ʿUmar, ʿAlī, Ibn Masʿūd, and others.
He used to perform one thousand units of prayer every day and night; when he grew old he reduced them to four hundred.
(1) “al-‘umala” (labor): the worker’s wage.
(2) In the printed edition it is misprinted as “ma‘bad.”
(3) Ibn Ma‘in, Tarikh, vol. 2, p. 209; Tabaqat Khalifa, no. 278; Tarikh Khalifa, p. 223; Tarikh al-Bukhari al-Kabir, vol. 3, entry 1511; al-Maarif, p. 313; al-Jarh wa al-Tadil, vol. 4, p. 72; Thiqaat Ibn Hibban, vol. 1, p. 163; Mashahir Ulama al-Amsar, p. 179; al-Mustadrak ala al-Sahihayn, vol. 3, p. 490; Jumharat Ansab al-Arab, p. 142; al-Istiab, vol. 2, p. 626; Tarikh Ibn Asakir, vol. 7, p. 182b; Asad al-Ghaba, vol. 2, p. 401; Mukhtasar Tarikh Dimashq, vol. 10, p. 16; Tahdhib al-Kamal, vol. 11, p. 111; al-Ibar, vol. 1, p. 59; Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 2, p. 289; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 2, p. 31; Siyar A’lam al-Nubala’, vol. 2, p. 542; al-Kashif, vol. 1, p. 298; Tajrid Asma al-Sahaba, no. 2347; Ikmal Maghaltay, p. 100; Nukat al-Himayan, p. 159; al-Aqd al-Thamin, vol. 4, p. 588; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 4, p. 99; al-Isaba, vol. 4, p. 200; Khulasat al-Khazarji, p. 144; Shudhurat al-Dhahab, vol. 1, p. 255; Tahdhib Ibn Asakir, vol. 6, p. 180.
(4) “Ansab al-haram” refers to its boundaries.
(5) In his Tarikh al-Kabir, vol. 3, entry 1511.
(6) In his Tarikh, p. 223.
(7) Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqat, vol. 6, p. 116; Tabaqat Khalifa, no. 1071; Tarikh al-Bukhari al-Kabir, vol. 8, p. 5; Thiqaat al-‘Ajli, p. 424; al-Jarh wa al-Tadil, vol. 8, p. 366; Mashahir Ulama al-Amsar, p. 754; Hilyat al-Awliya’, vol. 4, p. 161; Ansab al-Samani, vol. 8, p. 287; Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 1316; Tabaqat Ulama al-Hadith, vol. 1, p. 134; Siyar A’lam al-Nubala’, vol. 4, p. 74; Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 3, p. 303; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, vol. 1, p. 67; al-Kashif, vol. 3, p. 116; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 10, p. 88; Tabaqat al-Huffaz (al-Suyuti), p. 26; Khulasat al-Khazarji, p. 372; Tabaqat al-Mufassirin, vol. 2, p. 317.