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Al-Zuhri said: Whenever I met Ubaydullah, it was as though I were making a sea gush forth through him.

Abd al-Malik bin Maysarah said: Al-Dahhak did not meet Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both). He met Sa'id bin Jubayr at al-Rayy and learned tafsir from him.

Al-Hasan bin Muhammad said that Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) was buried at night.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mughaffal (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Salam (may Allah be pleased with him) passed through a piece of land beside him and said: At the head of forty years there will be peace at this place. The narrator said: The jama'ah of Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) was at the beginning of the year 40 AH.

Mushash said: I asked al-Dahhak: Have you met Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both)? He said: No.

Al-Sha'bi said: Sayyiduna Abu Bakr, Sayyiduna Umar and Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with them) passed away, and they had not compiled the Qur'an.

It is narrated from Yunus that when Sa'id bin Abi al-Hasan died, al-Hasan became extremely grieved and distressed. He was spoken to about this, and he said: I have not heard that Allah found fault with the distress and grief of Ya'qub (peace be upon him), which came upon him at the separation from Yusuf (peace be upon him).

Al-Hasan said: When Sayyiduna Utbah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) died, Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) became very grieved. When he was spoken to about this, he said: By Allah, when He has decreed what He has decreed, I would not like to supplicate to Him about it and have Him answer me.

Abu Ishaq said that Sayyiduna Qays bin Sa'd bin Ubadah (may Allah be pleased with him) served the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) for two years.

It is narrated from Abu Ishaq that Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) performed tawaf with Sayyiduna Abdullah bin al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) wrapped in a cloth. He was the first child born in Islam (he was the first child born in Madinah).

Hammam said: Abu Dawud, who was blind, went to Qatadah. When he left him, the people said to Qatadah: This man narrates from eighteen Companions who fought at Badr (may Allah be pleased with them). Qatadah said: Before the devastating plague, this man was one who used to beg. He knows nothing about this. By Allah, al-Hasan and Sa'id bin al-Musayyib did not narrate face to face from any Companion who fought at Badr, except Sa'id, who narrates from Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him).

Amr bin Murrah said: I asked Abu Ubaydah: Was Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on the Night of the Jinn? He said: No.

Ibrahim said: That was mentioned to Alqamah, and he said: I wish that our companion had been with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).

It is narrated from Hisham that he said: I asked: How many Companions did al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) meet? He said: One hundred and thirty Companions. I asked: How many Companions did Ibn Sirin meet? He said: Thirty.

Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Abza (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I offered the funeral prayer over Sayyidah Zaynab (may Allah be pleased with her) along with Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). She was the first of the Prophet's pure wives to pass away after the death of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).

Hisham narrates from his father that Sayyidah Khadijah (may Allah be pleased with her) passed away two years, or close to that, before the migration of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to Madinah. Then he married Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) when she was six years old, and she was sent to his home at the age of nine.

Abu Ishaq said: I was born in the second year of the caliphate of Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him).

Sharik said: And we buried him in the days of the Khawarij.

It is narrated from al-Sha'bi that Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him): Letters come to us and we do not know their dates, so fix a dating for us. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) consulted the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them). Some of the Companions advised that the dating be fixed from the commissioning of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and some others advised that it be fixed from the death of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I will fix the dating from the migration of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), for the migration of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) separated truth from falsehood. So he fixed the dating from the migration.