that my uncle Muṣʿab had been the commander of Quraysh on the Day of al-Ḥarrah. He was later killed alongside Ibn al-Zubayr in Mecca, and it was he who said:
I am the one who fled on the Day of Harrah—
an old man flees but once;
Nor did I mend that flight with a counter-charge. (1)
May Allah have mercy on him.

ʿAwf ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him) (2) is ʿAwf ibn Mālik ibn Abī ʿAwf al-Ashjaʿī al-Ghaṭnukānī, a noble Companion. He fought at Muʾtah with Khālid ibn al-Walīd and the commanders before him, took part in the Conquest (of Mecca) carrying his tribe’s banner that day, and was present at the conquest of Syria. He related hadith from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and a number of the Successors—among them Abū Hurayrah, who passed away before him—transmitted from him. Al-Wāqidī, Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ, Abū ʿUbayd and others (3) state that he died in 73 AH in Syria.

Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq (4), the mother of ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, was nicknamed Dhāt al-Niṭāqayn (“She of the Two Waistbands”). She received this title in the year of the Hijrah, when she tore her waistband in two and with one part tied up the food bundle of the Prophet ﷺ and of Abū Bakr as they set out for the cave of Thawr on their migration (5). Her mother was Qaylah—some say Qubaylah (6)—daughter of ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā of Banī ʿĀmir ibn Luʾayy.

Asmāʾ embraced Islam early, while they were still in Mecca at the dawn of the faith. She and her husband al-Zubayr emigrated while she was full-term with her son ʿAbd Allah, whom she delivered at Qubāʾ upon their first arrival in Medina. She later bore al-Zubayr two more sons, ʿUrwah and al-Mundhir. [She was the last of the Emigrants, male or female, to die (7). She herself, her sister ʿĀʾishah, her father Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, her grandfather Abū ʿAtīq, her son ʿAbd Allah, and her husband al-Zubayr were all Companions (may Allah be pleased with her). She was present at Yarmūk with her son and husband, and she was ten years older than her sister ʿĀʾishah.]