He—may Allah have mercy on him—also said:

As for “the daughter of Yazīd ibn al-Sakan,” she died in Syria, so it is possible that this is her grave. As for “Bilāl’s grave,” this is possible, for he was buried at Bāb al-Saghīr in Damascus, so it is known that he was buried there. Identifying his precise grave with certainty, however, is open to question, for it is said that those graves were ploughed over.

Among these is the grave attributed to “Uways al-Qaranī,” west of Damascus. Uways did not come to Syria; rather, he went to Iraq.

Another is the grave attributed to “Hūd, peace be upon him,” in the congregational mosque of Damascus. This attribution is false by agreement of the scholars, for Hūd did not come to Syria. Rather, he was sent as a prophet in Yemen and migrated to Mecca. It is said that he died in Yemen, and it is also said that he died in Mecca. That site is simply opposite “the grave of Mu‘āwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān.”

As for the grave outside Bāb al-Saghīr that is said to be Mu‘āwiyah’s grave, it is actually that of Mu‘āwiyah ibn Yazīd ibn Mu‘āwiyah, who held the caliphate for a short time and then died without appointing a successor. He was a man of religious devotion and righteousness.