Among the notable figures who died that year were:

Aban ibn ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan (1). We have already cited another report that places his death in 85 AH. He was one of the jurists and scholars of the Successor generation. ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb said, “I never saw anyone more learned than he in hadith and fiqh.” Yahya ibn Saʿid al-Qattan said, “The jurists of Madinah are ten,” and he counted Aban ibn ʿUthman among them, together with Kharijah ibn Zayd, Salim ibn ʿAbd Allah, Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib, Sulayman ibn Yasar, ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUtbah, ʿUrwah, al-Qasim, Qubaysah ibn Dhuʾayb, and Abu Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman.

Muhammad ibn Saʿd (2) said: “He was afflicted with deafness and leukoderma, and a year before his death he suffered a stroke. He died in 105 AH.”

Among those who also died that year were: Abu Rajaʾ al-ʿAtaridi (3), a narrator found in both Ṣaḥih collections; ʿAmir ibn Sharahil al-Shaʿbi, according to one report—his mention has already preceded (4); and the poet Kuthayyir ʿAzza, according to another report, though it is also said he died in the following year, as will be noted.

Then the year 106 AH began.

In that year Hisham ibn ʿAbd al-Malik dismissed ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Nasri (5) from the governorship of Madinah, Mecca and al-Taʾif, and appointed in his place his maternal cousin Ibrahim ibn Hisham ibn Ismaʿil al-Makhzumi.

That same year Saʿid ibn ʿAbd al-Malik led the summer expedition, and in it [Muslim ibn Saʿid mounted a campaign against the city of Fergana and its districts, where he encountered