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« as an arbitrator at Ṣiffīn (37/657) to adjudicate between ʿAlī and Muʿāwiya, after which he retreated from the public sphere. Abū Saʿīd al-Khuḍrī (d. ca 64/683–4 or 74/693–4). He was a Companion of the Prophet and one of his lieutenants, fighting in twelve battles. A prolific narrator of ḥadīth, he related a vast number to Ibn ʿAbbās and Ibn al-Musayyib and was recognised as a legal authority in Medina. Abū Sufyān b. Ḥarb b. Umayya (d. ca 32/653). Chief of the Banū ʿAbd Shams clan of Quraysh, he was a staunch opponent of the Prophet’s mission before converting to Islam at the time of the »