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[[Ibn Babiwayh]] has counted him among Imam 'Ali's (a) [[List of Companions of Imam 'Ali (a)|companions]]<ref>Ṣadūq, ''ʿUyūn al-akhbār'', vol. 2, p. 126; Kashshī, ''Ikhtīyār maʿrifat al-rijāl'', p. 38.</ref> and fellows. His participation in the [[battle of Jamal]] with Imam 'Ali (a) has been cited in the sources.<ref>Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī'', vol. 4, p. 447.</ref> | [[Ibn Babiwayh]] has counted him among Imam 'Ali's (a) [[List of Companions of Imam 'Ali (a)|companions]]<ref>Ṣadūq, ''ʿUyūn al-akhbār'', vol. 2, p. 126; Kashshī, ''Ikhtīyār maʿrifat al-rijāl'', p. 38.</ref> and fellows. His participation in the [[battle of Jamal]] with Imam 'Ali (a) has been cited in the sources.<ref>Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī'', vol. 4, p. 447.</ref> | ||
At the beginning of the [[Battle of Siffin]], Abu l-Haytham encouraged the Iraqi armies to participate in the war. Some people have said that he died years before this war in [[20]]/640- | At the beginning of the [[Battle of Siffin]], Abu l-Haytham encouraged the Iraqi armies to participate in the war. Some people have said that he died years before this war in [[20]]/640-1 during 'Umar's caliphate.<ref>Ibn Ḥabbān, ''Mashāhīr ʿulamā al-amṣār'', p. 12; Ḥākim al-Nayshābūrī, ''al-Mustadrak ʿala l-ṣaḥīḥayn'', vol. 3, p. 286.</ref> Accordingly some people have cast doubts on his participation in the war of Siffin.<ref>Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, ''al-ʿIlal wa maʿrifat al-rijāl'', vol. 1, p. 432; Khalīfa b. Khayyāṭ, ''Tārīkh-i Khalīfa'', vol. 1, p. 146; Ibn Qutayba, ''al-Maʿārif'', p. 270.</ref> | ||
Though [[Ibn Abi l-Hadid]]'s quotation from [[Nasr b. Muzahim]] is not found in the present copies and versions of the latter's book, the presence of an elegy for Abu l-Haytham among the elegies of the Siffin martyrs in Nasr b. Muzahim's book<ref>Naṣr b. Muzāhim, ''Waqʿat Ṣiffīn'', p. 365.</ref> might, on the one hand, show omissions in the present copy of his book and the correctness of Ibn Abi l-Hadid's quotation from him, and, on the other hand, it shows that Abu l-Haytham is probably killed then, and the issue of his participation in Siffin might come down to disputes about whether and how the fellows of Badr took part in Imam 'Ali's (a) battles, just as there is the same controversy regarding the participation of [[Khuzayma b. Thabit]], known as Dhu l-Shahadatayn in Imam 'Ali's (a) battles.<ref>Sayf b. ʿUmar, ''al-Fitna wa al-waqʿat al-Jamal'', p. 110; Ibn Ḥajar, ''al-Iṣāba'', vol. 2, p. 112.</ref> | Though [[Ibn Abi l-Hadid]]'s quotation from [[Nasr b. Muzahim]] is not found in the present copies and versions of the latter's book, the presence of an elegy for Abu l-Haytham among the elegies of the Siffin martyrs in Nasr b. Muzahim's book<ref>Naṣr b. Muzāhim, ''Waqʿat Ṣiffīn'', p. 365.</ref> might, on the one hand, show omissions in the present copy of his book and the correctness of Ibn Abi l-Hadid's quotation from him, and, on the other hand, it shows that Abu l-Haytham is probably killed then, and the issue of his participation in Siffin might come down to disputes about whether and how the fellows of Badr took part in Imam 'Ali's (a) battles, just as there is the same controversy regarding the participation of [[Khuzayma b. Thabit]], known as Dhu l-Shahadatayn in Imam 'Ali's (a) battles.<ref>Sayf b. ʿUmar, ''al-Fitna wa al-waqʿat al-Jamal'', p. 110; Ibn Ḥajar, ''al-Iṣāba'', vol. 2, p. 112.</ref> | ||