Ismaʿil ibn Abi Khalid, al-Hakam, Salamah ibn Kuhayl, al-Shaʿbi, and Abu Ishaq al-Sabiʿi.
He had settled in Kufah, built a house there, and died in this same year, though some said it was in 94 AH; Allah knows best.
[He was ʿAli’s chief of police, and whenever ʿAli delivered a sermon Abu Juhaifah would stand beneath the pulpit.]
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Salamah ibn al-Akwaʿ (2) ibn ʿAmr ibn Sinan al-Ansari was one of those who pledged allegiance beneath the Tree. He ranked among the finest horsemen and scholars of the Companions. He issued legal rulings in Madinah and participated in well-known campaigns during the Prophet’s ﷺ lifetime and afterward. He died in Madinah at a little over seventy years of age.
Malik ibn Abi ʿAmir (3) al-Asbahi, the Medinan, was the grandfather of Imam Malik ibn Anas. He narrated from a group of Companions and others, and was a virtuous, learned man. He died in Madinah.
Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Sulami (4)—whose given name was ʿAbd Allah ibn Habib—was unchallenged as the chief Qur’an teacher of Kufah. He learned the Qur’an from ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan and Ibn Masʿud, heard hadith from many Companions and others, and taught the Qur’an in Kufah from the caliphate of ʿUthman until the governorship of al-Hajjaj. ʿAsim ibn Abi al-Nujud and many others recited to him. He died in Kufah.
Abu Muʿriḍ al-Asadi (5)—his name was Muʿirah ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Kufi—was born during the Prophet’s ﷺ lifetime. He later visited ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwan and praised him in verse; he composed fine poetry. He was also known as al-Aqtashi (6). Ruddy-faced and thick-haired, he died in Kufah this year, having approached eighty years of age.
(1) The phrase “between two curved brackets” is an addition from the Ṭ edition, and the account appears in Tārīkh al-Islām.
(2) Biography of Salama b. al-Akwaʿ in Ṭabaqāt Ibn Saʿd (vol. 4, p. 305); Tārīkh Khalīfa (p. 271); Tārīkh al-Bukhārī (vol. 4, p. 69); al-Maʿrifa wa-al-Tārīkh (vol. 1, p. 336); al-Istiʿāb (vol. 2, p. 87); Usd al-Ghāba (vol. 2, p. 333); Tahdhīb al-Kamāl (vol. 11, p. 301); Tārīkh al-Islām (events of 61–80 AH, p. 412); Siyar A‘yān al-Nubalā’ (vol. 3, pp. 326–331); Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb (vol. 4, pp. 150–152); al-Iṣāba (vol. 2, p. 66); al-Wāfī bi’l-Wafayāt (vol. 15, p. 321); Shadharāt al-Dhahab (vol. 1, p. 311).
(3) Biography of Mālik b. Abī ʿĀmir in Ṭabaqāt Ibn Saʿd (vol. 5, pp. 63–64); Ṭabaqāt Khalīfa (p. 254); Tārīkh al-Bukhārī (vol. 7, p. 30); Tahdhīb al-Kamāl (vol. 18, p. 36); Tārīkh al-Islām (events of 61–80 AH, p. 521); Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb (vol. 10, p. 19).
(4) Biography of Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī in Ṭabaqāt Ibn Saʿd (vol. 6, p. 172); Ṭabaqāt Khalīfa (p. 273); Tārīkh al-Bukhārī (vol. 5, p. 72); Tārīkh Baghdād (vol. 9, p. 430); al-Maʿrifa wa-al-Tārīkh (vol. 1, p. 219) and other passages; Tahdhīb al-Kamāl (vol. 14, pp. 408–410); Tārīkh al-Islām (events of 61–80 AH, pp. 556–558); Siyar A‘yān al-Nubalā’ (vol. 4, p. 267); al-Wāfī bi’l-Wafayāt (vol. 16, p. 121); Nukat al-Humayān (p. 178); Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb (vol. 5, pp. 183–184).
(5) Biography of Abū Maʿriḍ al-Asadī in ash-Shiʿr wa-al-Shuʿarā’ (vol. 2, p. 463); Maʿjam ash-Shuʿarā’ by al-Marzubānī (p. 396); Tārīkh al-Islām (events of 61–80 AH, pp. 560–561).
(6) In Tārīkh al-Islām he is called al-Uqayshir, so named because he had a red face and was bald.