ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Ṭalḥah ibn Abī al-Aswad ⦗1⦘—the father of the jurist Isḥāq—was conceived the very night Umm Sulaym lost her son. The following morning Abū Ṭalḥah informed the Prophet ﷺ, and he ﷺ said, “You spent the night together; may Allah bless the two of you in your night.” ⦗2⦘ When the boy was born, the Prophet performed tahnīk for him with a few dates.
ʿAbd Allah ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik ⦗3⦘, who served as Kaʿb’s guide after the latter lost his sight, transmitted several hadith and died in Madinah this year.
ʿAffān ibn Wahb ⦗4⦘—Abū Ayman al-Khawlānī al-Miṣrī—was a Companion and hadith narrator. He campaigned in the Maghrib, settled in Egypt, and died there ⦗5⦘.
Those who also died this year include Jamil ibn ʿAbd Allah ⦗6⦘ ibn Maʿmar ibn Ṣubāḥ ⦗7⦘ ibn Ẓabyān ibn Ḥunn ⦗8⦘ ibn Rabīʿah ibn Ḥarām ibn Ḍinna ⦗9⦘ ibn ʿAbd ibn Kathīr ibn ʿUdhrah ibn Saʿd Hadhīm ⦗10⦘ ibn Zayd ibn Layth ibn Sūd ⦗11⦘ ibn Aslam ibn al-Ḥāfī ibn Quḍāʿah—Abū ʿAmr the poet, famed for his love of Buthaynah ⦗12⦘. He had sought her hand but was refused, so he immortalized her in verse, became renowned thereby, and was counted among the celebrated lovers.
al-Wafi bi al-Wafayāt (vol. 2, p. 187) and Tahdhib al-Tahdhib (vol. 9, p. 35). Al-Dhahabī states: “It is said he died in 96 AH.”
(1) Biography of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ṭalḥa in Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqāt (vol. 5, p. 74); Tabaqāt Khalīfa (p. 337); al-Istīʿāb (vol. 2, p. 313); Asad al-Ghabah (vol. 3, p. 188); Tahdhib al-Kamāl (vol. 15, pp. 133–134); al-Dhahabī, Tārīkh al-Islām (events of 81–100 AH, pp. 113–114); al-Wafayāt (vol. 17, p. 184); and Tahdhib al-Tahdhib (vol. 5, p. 269).
(2) This hadith is recorded by al-Bukhārī in his Ṣaḥīḥ (no. 5470, under “Al-ʿAqīqah”) and by Muslim (no. 2144).
(3) Biography of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik in Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqāt (vol. 5, p. 272); Tārīkh al-Bukhārī (vol. 5, p. 178); Tahdhib al-Kamāl (vol. 15, p. 473); and al-Dhahabī, Tārīkh al-Islām (events of 81–100 AH, p. 404). Al-Dhahabī remarks he died in 97 or 98 AH; see also al-Wafayāt (vol. 17, pp. 411–412) and Tahdhib al-Tahdhib (vol. 5, p. 369).
(4) I found no biographical entry for him among the sources at my disposal.
(5) The seven preceding biographies are an addition from the printed edition.
(6) Biography of Jamīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh in Ansāb al-Ashrāf (vol. 1, p. 17); al-Shiʿr wa al-Shuʿarāʾ (vol. 1, p. 434); al-Aghānī (vol. 8, p. 90); Wafayāt al-Aʿyān (vol. 1, p. 366); Tārīkh Dimashq (vol. 11, pp. 255–281); al-Dhahabī, Tārīkh al-Islām (events of 81–100 AH, p. 311); Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (vol. 4, p. 181); al-Wafayāt (vol. 11, p. 182); and Shadharāt al-Dhahab (vol. 1, p. 336).
(7) There is disagreement concerning Jamīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh’s lineage: in al-Aghānī and Jumhūrat al-Ansāb it appears as “… ibn Muʿammar ibn al-Ḥārith …,” whereas al-Dhahabī confines it to his grandfather Muʿammar.
(8) Hunn: with a damma on the initial h and a shadda on the n, as noted by Ibn Maqlūṭa in al-Ikmāl (vol. 2, p. 94). In the printed edition it erroneously appears as “al-Ḥasan.”
(9) In the printed edition it appears as “Dabba”; the correct reading is mushaf.
(10) In the printed edition and Wafayāt al-Aʿyān it reads “Saʿd ibn Hudhaym,” which is incorrect; the correction comes from Ibn Ḥazm’s Jumhūrat Ansāb al-ʿArab (p. 447).
(11) In the printed edition it appears as “Sarhad,” a corruption. See Ibn Ḥazm, Jumhūrat Ansāb (p. 443) and Tārīkh Dimashq (vol. 11, p. 256).
(12) Buthayna: daughter of Hubbaʾ ibn Thaʿlaba ibn al-Hudh; her lineage intersects with Jamīl’s in Hunn ibn Rabīʿa.