Who was Jabir ibn Abdullah?

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Jabir ibn Abd Allah al-Ansari (d. 697 CE) was the last of the Companions to die in Medina. He witnessed the pledge of al-'Aqaba and seventeen campaigns, and he narrated 1,540 hadiths. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

Who was Jabir ibn Abdullah?

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas