there, and his grave lies close to the walls of Constantinople. We have established this point in Proofs of Prophethood (1).

Then the year 57 AH began.

During that year ʿAbd Allah ibn Qays spent the winter campaigning in Byzantine territory.

Al-Waqidi reports: In Shawwal of that year Muʿawiyah dismissed Marwan ibn al-Hakam from Medina and appointed al-Walid ibn ʿUtbah ibn Abi Sufyan in his place. Al-Walid is the one who led the people in the pilgrimage that year, for the governorship of Medina had passed to him. Over Kufa Muʿawiyah placed al-Dahhak ibn Qays, over Basra ʿUbayd Allah ibn Ziyad, and over Khurasan Saʿid ibn ʿUthman.

Ibn al-Jawzi adds: In this same year ʿUthman ibn Hunayf al-Ansari al-Awsi died; he was the brother of ʿUbadah and Sahl, the sons of Hunayf. ʿUmar had sent him to survey the land-tax (kharaj) of the Sawad in Iraq and had appointed him governor of Kufa. When Talhah and al-Zubayr arrived with ʿAʾishah and he refused to hand over the governor’s residence, they plucked out his beard, eyebrows, and eyelashes and otherwise abused him. When ʿAli arrived and he surrendered the city to him, he said, “O Commander of the Believers, I left you with a beard and now meet you clean-shaven.” ʿAli—may Allah be pleased with him—smiled and replied, “Your reward for this is with Allah.”

In the Musnad and the Sunan he narrates the report of the blind man who asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to supplicate on his behalf so that Allah might restore his sight, and Allah did restore it (2). He also has another hadith recorded by al-Nasaʾi (3).

I have found no authority who dates his death to this year other than Ibn al-Jawzi, and Allah knows best.

Then the year 58 AH commenced.

In it Malik ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Khathʿami campaigned against the Byzantines.