“ʿUkkāshah has beaten you to it.” (1)

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Biographical notes on the men named in the ḥadith:

• Ḥuṣayn: Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī al-Ḥārithī, of the second generation after the Successors; d. 136 AH at the age of 93.

• Saʿīd ibn Jubayr: the eminent jurist, one of the foremost students of Ibn ʿAbbās; executed by al-Ḥajjāj in 95 AH before reaching fifty.

• al-Shaʿbī: ʿĀmir ibn Sharāḥīl al-Hamdānī, born during the caliphate of ʿUmar, a reliable Successor; d. 103 AH.

• Buraydah (with ḍammah on the first consonant and fatḥah on the second): Buraydah ibn al-Ḥuṣayb ibn al-Ḥārith al-Aslamī, a famous Companion; d. 63 AH.

• Ibn ʿAbbās: the illustrious Companion ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, the Prophet’s cousin. The Prophet supplicated for him, “O Allah, grant him deep understanding of the religion and teach him the interpretation,” and so it was. He died in Ṭāʾif in 68 AH.

• ʿUkkāshah: ʿUkkāshah ibn Miḥṣan ibn Ḥarthān al-Asadī, among the earliest converts; he emigrated, fought at Badr, and was martyred in the apostasy wars alongside Khālid ibn al-Walīd in 12 AH.

• al-kawkab (star).

• inqaḍḍa: said when a meteor flashes down (lit. “a meteor fell”).