Ibn Mandah relates, on the authority of Musa ibn ʿUqbah, that he said: “He was present at Badr.” Ibn Mandah adds: “This is a mistake.”

Shaddad was renowned for his extraordinary diligence in worship. When he lay down to rest, he would become restless(1) on his mattress, twisting like a snake, and saying, “O Allah, the fear of the Fire has robbed me of sleep,” after which he would rise to pray.

ʿUbada ibn al-Samit said, “Shaddad was among those who were granted both knowledge and forbearance.”

Shaddad settled in Palestine and in Jerusalem. He died in this year at the age of seventy-five. It is also said that he died in 64 AH, and others say in 41 AH; Allah knows best.

ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmir (2): son of Kurayz ibn Rabiʿah ibn Habib ibn ʿAbd Shams ibn ʿAbd Manaf ibn Qusay, the Qurashi of the ʿAbshami branch and a maternal cousin of ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan.

He was born during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—who spat into his mouth. The infant began swallowing the Prophet’s saliva, whereupon he (3) said, “Water shall always be granted to him.” Thereafter, whenever he cultivated any land, water would rise for him.

He was generous, widely praised, and of blessed disposition. ʿUthman appointed him governor of Basra after Abu Musa and later put him in charge of Fars after ʿUthman ibn Abi al-ʿAs—he was then twenty-five years old. He went on to conquer all of Khurasan, the fringes of Fars, Sijistan, Kirman, and the land of Ghazna. During his tenure the Chosroes, Yazdegerd (4), the “king of kings,” was killed.

ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmir then entered into iḥram for Hajj—some say for ʿUmra—from those distant lands as an act of gratitude to Allah (Exalted is He), and he distributed vast sums of money among the people of Madinah.