{
 "id": "person/wathila-ibn-al-asqa",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "wathila-ibn-al-asqa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "واثلة بن الأسقع",
  "en": "Wathila ibn al-Asqa'"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "من بني ليث بن عبد مناة، أسلم قبل تبوك وشهدها، وكان من أهل الصفة كما يذكر ابن سعد ثم نزل الشام؛ شهد فتح دمشق وحمص كما يذكر أبو حاتم، ومات في خلافة عبد الملك سنة 83هـ أو 85هـ، وهو آخر من مات بدمشق من الصحابة في قول الواقدي.",
  "en": "From Banu Layth ibn Abd Manat, he embraced Islam before Tabuk and took part in it; Ibn Sa'd lists him among the people of the Suffa, after which he settled in Syria; Abu Hatim says he was at the conquests of Damascus and Homs; he died in the caliphate of Abd al-Malik in 83 or 85 AH, and in al-Waqidi's account was the last Companion to die at Damascus."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun",
  "period/umayyad"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "واثلة بن الأسقع بن كعب بن عامر الليثي (وقيل واثلة بن عبد الله بن الأسقع)"
   },
   {
    "kind": "kunya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أبو قرصافة (وقيل غير ذلك)"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "مذكور في الإصابة ترجمة رقم 9144 (ص 1561).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "note": "ذُكر في كتب الصحابة؛ يُسجَّل ضمن الإطار السني للمتحف (docs/scope.md)."
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الإصابة في تمييز الصحابة، ترجمة 9144، ص 1561",
   "generated_by": "Claude (maintainer session)",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "isaba-batch-7"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; read from al-Isaba (column-aware OCR, page 1561, entry 9144)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "[[person/wathila-ibn-al-asqa|واثلة بن الأسقع]] بن كعب بن عامر، من بني ليث بن عبد مناة، وصحح ابن أبي خيثمة أنه واثلة بن عبد الله بن الأسقع ينسب إلى جده، ويقال الأسقع لقب واسمه عبد الله {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1561}. قال الواقدي: يكنى أبا قرصافة، وقال غيره: أبو الأسقع، ويقال أبو محمد وأبو الخطاب وأبو شداد {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1561}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "إسلامه وتبوك",
     "markdown": "أسلم قبل [[event/expedition-to-tabuk|تبوك]] وشهدها {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1561}. قال ابن سعد: كان من أهل الصفة، ثم نزل الشام، وقال أبو حاتم: شهد فتح [[place/damascus|دمشق]] وحمص وغيرهما {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1561}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرواية",
     "markdown": "روى عن النبي وعن أبي مرثد وأبي هريرة وأم سلمة، وروى عنه ابنته فسيلة، ويقال خصيلة، وأبو إدريس الخولاني وشداد أبو عمار وبشر بن عبيد الله ومكحول ومعروف أبو الخطاب وآخرون {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1561}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "قال ابن سميع: مات في خلافة عبد الملك، وأرّخه إسماعيل بن عياش عن سعيد بن خالد سنة ثلاث وثمانين، وزاد أنه كان حينئذ ابن مئة وخمس وستين سنة (كما في المطبوع، وقد روجع على صورة الصفحة)، وقال أبو مسهر وغيره: مات سنة خمس وثمانين، وفيها أرّخه الواقدي وزاد أنه ابن ثمان وسبعين سنة وأنه آخر من مات بدمشق من الصحابة {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1561}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/wathila-ibn-al-asqa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "[[person/wathila-ibn-al-asqa|Wathila ibn al-Asqa']] ibn Ka'b ibn Amir, of Banu Layth ibn Abd Manat; Ibn Abi Khaythama corrected that he is Wathila ibn Abdullah ibn al-Asqa', traced to his grandfather — and it is said al-Asqa' is an epithet, his name being Abdullah {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1561}. Al-Waqidi said his kunya is Abu Qursafa; others said Abu al-Asqa' — or Abu Muhammad, Abu al-Khattab and Abu Shaddad {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1561}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His Islam and Tabuk",
     "markdown": "He became Muslim before [[event/expedition-to-tabuk|Tabuk]] and witnessed it {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1561}. Ibn Sa'd said he was of the Suffa people, then settled in Syria; Abu Hatim said he witnessed the conquest of [[place/damascus|Damascus]], Hims and others {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1561}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Narration",
     "markdown": "He related from the Prophet, Abu Marthad, Abu Hurayra and Umm Salama; from him related his daughter Fasila — or Khusayla — Abu Idris al-Khawlani, Shaddad Abu Ammar, Bishr ibn Ubaydullah, Makhul, Ma'ruf Abu al-Khattab and others {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1561}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His death",
     "markdown": "Ibn Sumay' said he died in Abd al-Malik's caliphate; Isma'il ibn Ayyash dated him from Sa'id ibn Khalid to year eighty-three, adding he was then one hundred sixty-five years old (as printed, checked against the page image); Abu Mash'ar and others said he died in year eighty-five — so al-Waqidi dated him too, adding he was seventy-eight and the last Companion to die at Damascus {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1561}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/wathila-ibn-al-asqa",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 6,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "event/expedition-to-tabuk",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "place/damascus",
   "type": "lived_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/arbaun-11",
   "type": "mentioned_in",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/fadala-ibn-ubayd",
  "concept/wara",
  "event/abu-dharr-lags-behind-on-the-march",
  "event/abu-khaythama-joins-the-army",
  "event/abu-ruhm-and-the-stragglers-of-ghifar-and-aslam",
  "event/al-jadd-ibn-qays-asks-to-stay-behind",
  "event/ali-left-with-the-prophets-family",
  "event/bedouin-excuse-makers"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}