Kurāʿ al-Ghamīm (1), where Burayda met him with eighty members of his household; they all embraced Islam. The Prophet then led them in the night (‘Isha) prayer and, that very evening, taught him the opening verses of Sūrah Maryam.
Later, Burayda came to the Messenger of God (ﷺ) in Madinah after the Battle of Uhud, took part with him in every subsequent expedition, and remained in the city. When Basra was conquered, he moved there and marked out a house for himself. He subsequently set out on the Khurasan campaign and died in Marw during the caliphate of Yazid ibn Muʿāwiyah.
Several authorities record that his death occurred in this same year.
Al-Rabīʿ ibn Khuthaym (2) — Abū Yazīd al-Thawrī al-Kūfī — was one of Ibn Masʿūd’s companions. ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿūd once said to him (3): “Whenever I see you, you remind me of the devoutly humble; had the Messenger of God (ﷺ) seen you, he would have loved you.” (4) Ibn Masʿūd held him in great esteem.
Al-Shaʿbī said, “Al-Rabīʿ was a mine of truthfulness and the most scrupulous of Ibn Masʿūd’s disciples.” Ibn Maʿīn remarked, “A man like him needs no further questioning.” He possessed very many outstanding virtues. Ibn al-Jawzī dated his death to this same year.
ʿAlqamah ibn Qays (5) — Abū Shibl al-Nakhaʿī al-Kūfī.
= al-Qaysarānī (1:61); Asad al-Ghabah (1:209); Tahdhīb al-Kamāl (4:53); Tadhhīb al-Tahdhīb (1:81); Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalā’ (2:469); Tārīkh al-Islām (2:386); al-‘Ibar (1:66); al-Kāshif (1:99); Majma‘ al-Zawā’id (9:398); al-Isābah (1:241); Tadhhīb al-Tahdhīb (1:432); Khulāṣat al-Khuzrajī (47); Shadharāt al-Dhahab (1:281).
(1) “Kuraʾ al-Ghamīm”: a locality in the Ḥijāz between Makkah and Madīnah, a valley eight miles before ʿUsfān. Mu‘jam al-Buldan (4:443).
(2) Tabaqāt Ibn Sa‘d (vol. 6:182); Tabaqāt Khalīfah (p. 141); Tārīkh al-Bukhārī al-Kabīr (vol. 3:269); Thiqāt al-‘Ajlī (154); al-Ma‘ārif (497); al-Ma‘rifah wa-al-Tārīkh (vol. 2:563); al-Jarḥ wa-al-Ta‘dīl (vol. 3:459); al-‘Uqd al-Farīd (vol. 1:275; vol. 2:424; vol. 3:150,171,179); Thiqāt Ibn Ḥibbān (vol. 1, p. 128); Mashāhīr ‘Ulamā’ al-Amsār (d. 737); Hilyat al-Awliyā’ (vol. 2:105); Jamhara Ansāb al-‘Arab (201); al-Jam‘ li-Ibn al-Qaysarānī (vol. 1:134); Ansāb al-Subḥānī (vol. 3:146,147); Tahdhīb al-Kamāl (vol. 9:70); Tadhhīb al-Tahdhīb (vol. 1:217); Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ (vol. 1:57); Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 3:15,247,365); Siyar A‘lām al-Nubalā’ (vol. 4:258); al-Kāshif (vol. 1:235); Ma‘rifat al-Tābi‘īn (p. 11); Ikmāl Maghalṭāy (vol. 2, p. 15); Ghayat al-Nihāyah (vol. 1:283); Nihāyat al-Sul (p. 95); Tadhhīb al-Tahdhīb (vol. 3:242); Khulāṣat al-Khuzrajī (115).
(3) The phrase “between two sieges” is omitted in source A.
(4) Hilyat al-Awliyā’ (vol. 2:106). The term al-mukhbitūn is explained as al-mutma’nīn (the tranquil ones); others say it designates those who are humble and reverent before their Lord.
(5) Tabaqāt Ibn Sa‘d (vol. 6:86); Tabaqāt Khalīfah (d. 1054); Tārīkh Khalīfah (pp. 196, 236); Tārīkh al-Bukhārī al-Kabīr (vol. 7:41).