Muhammad ibn Saʿd, al-Fallas, and Abū ʿUbaydah said, “He died in this very year.” Others, however, held that he passed away sometime after 90 AH; Allah knows best.
Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī (1)—whose given name was Ṣudayy ibn ʿAjlān—settled in Homs. He is the transmitter of the hadith, “Prompt the deceased after burial,” which al-Ṭabarānī (2) recorded in his work al-Duʿāʾ. He has already been cited above among those who died.
Qabīsah ibn Dhuʾayb (3), Abū Sufyān al-Khuzāʿī of Madinah, was born in the Year of the Conquest and was brought to the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—for supplication. He reported hadith from many Companions. His eye was injured on the day of al-Ḥarrah. Counted among the jurists of Madinah, he enjoyed special favor with ʿAbd al-Malik, entering upon him without permission. Whenever dispatches arrived from the provinces, he would read them and then inform ʿAbd al-Malik of their contents. He was the caliph’s confidant. He owned a house in Damascus at Bāb al-Barīd and died there.
ʿUrwah ibn al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah (4) governed Kufah on behalf of al-Ḥajjāj. He was noble, intelligent, and widely obeyed, though he was aḥwal (cross-eyed) (5). He died in Kufah.
Yaḥyā ibn Yaʿmur (6) served as judge of Marw. He was the first to place diacritical dots on the Qurʾānic manuscripts and was one of the eminent men of his time.
(1) Already cited; its biographical sources are given at the beginning of the events for the year 86 AH.
(2) This hadith is mentioned by al-Haythami in Majma‘ al-Zawa’id (vol. 3, p. 45), who reports that al-Tabarani narrates it in al-Kabir (vol. 8, p. 298) via an unnamed group, and again in al-Tabarani’s al-Du‘a’ (vol. 3, pp. 1367–1368, no. 1214). Ibn al-Qayyim comments in Zad al-Ma‘ad (vol. 1, p. 523) that it is not authentically raised, and al-Nawawi and others have likewise declared it weak.
(3) The biographical entry for Qubaysa ibn Thu’ayb appears in:
• Ibn Sa‘d, al-Tabaqat al-Kubrá, vol. 5, p. 176
• Tarikh Khalifa, p. 292 and its Ṭabaqāt, p. 309
• Tarikh al-Bukhari, vol. 7, pp. 174–175
• al-Ma‘rifah wa al-Tarikh, vol. 1, p. 236
• Ansab al-Ashraf, vol. 1, p. 411 (and elsewhere)
• Tarikh Dimashq, vol. 49, p. 250
• Asad al-Ghabah, vol. 4, p. 191
• Tahdhib al-Kamal, vol. 23, p. 476
• Tarikh al-Islam (events of 81–100 AH), pp. 170–172
• Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’, vol. 4, pp. 282–284
• al-Nujum al-Zahirah, vol. 1, p. 214
• Shadharāt al-Dhahab, vol. 1, p. 352
(4) The biographical entry for ‘Urwah ibn al-Mughīrah is found in:
• Ibn Sa‘d, al-Tabaqat al-Kubrá, vol. 6, p. 269
• Tarikh Khalifa, p. 210 and its Ṭabaqāt, p. 155
• Tarikh al-Bukhari, vol. 7, p. 72
• al-Ma‘rifah wa al-Tarikh, vol. 1, p. 398 and vol. 2, p. 104
• Ansab al-Ashraf, vol. 1, pp. 197, 55 (and elsewhere)
• Tahdhib al-Kamal, vol. 20, p. 37
• Tarikh al-Islam by al-Dhahabi (events of 81–100 AH), pp. 151–152 (al-Dhahabi states he died in his mid-eighties)
• Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 7, p. 189
(5) This is mentioned by al-Jahiz in al-Bursān wa al-‘Arjān wa al-Hawlān (p. 364).
(6) The biographical entry for Yahya ibn Ya‘mar appears in:
• Ibn Sa‘d, al-Tabaqat al-Kubrá, vol. 7, p. 368
• Tarikh Khalifa, p. 303 and its Ṭabaqāt, p. 203
• al-Ma‘rifah wa al-Tarikh, vol. 2, p. 141
• Ma‘jam al-Shu‘arā’ by al-Marzubānī, p. 485 (records him as Yahya ibn Na‘im)
• Ṭabaqāt al-Naḥwiyyīn wa al-Lughawiyyīn, p. 37
• al-Kamil by Ibn al-Athir, vol. 4, p. 308
• Marātib al-Naḥwiyyīn, pp. 25–26
• Wafayāt al-A‘yān, vol. 6, p. 173
• Tahdhib al-Kamal, vol. 32, p. 53
• Tarikh al-Islam by al-Dhahabi (events of 81–100 AH), pp. 502–503 (quoting Khalifa that he died before ninety)
• Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’, vol. 4, p. 441
• Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 11, p. 305
• al-Nujum al-Zahirah, vol. 1, p. 217
• Shadharāt al-Dhahab, vol. 1, p. 175