He said: "They are the forty who testified for Talha and Al-Zubayr on the Day of al-Haw'ab until their mistress fought and did not return with them to Yathrib. All of that was in pursuit and greed of completing what they hoped for and intended. But Allah was more dominant in authority, stronger in might, and higher in enablement. He annihilated them with an annihilation of crushing and destroyed them with a destruction of erasure, when their initial state did not return. Rather, He settled them into molds of what you have slaughtered and what you ride of your beasts, donkeys, mules, and types of birds permissible to eat. One eats them in their place just as they ate [from God's provision] at that time. It represents what was said about it: 'The Fire eats parts of itself,' and the Fire is the Musukhiyya."

I said: "O my Master, bestow upon me the knowledge of the names of the forty who bore false witness on the Day of al-Haw'ab so that we may know them as we knew the Companions of the Dibab on the Night of the Aqabah."

He said: "O Jaber, these are their names and nicknames (kunya). They are:

Al-Rabi' bin Mu'ammar al-Kalbi, Mus'ab bin Qays al-Dabbi, Kilab bin Siwar al-Tamimi, Ghilala bin Shihab al-Tamimi, Suraqa bin Muqallid al-Dabbi, Dhakwan bin Muslim al-Najli, Majid bin al-Asamm al-Tamimi, Asim bin Masruq al-Dabbi, Sawar bin Ma'arik al-Juhani, Dhuhl bin Kathir al-Tamimi, Inan bin Talib al-Adawi, Al-Julanda bin Kamil al-Hijri, Mu'adh bin Muzahim al-Dabbi, Ghiyad bin Malik al-Zubaidi, Muhallil bin Wabal al-Taghlibi, Uday bin Miqdam al-Dabbi, Tariq bin Ghunaym al-Absi, Hayyan bin Mujashi' al-Hilali, Madhkur bin al-Ash'ath al-Dabbi, Dawud bin Tamim al-Absi, Muharib bin Tamim al-Absi, Muharib bin Salim al-Muzni, Mayhub bin Tamim bin Sinan al-Tamimi, Omar bin Asim al-Absi, Wasil bin Muharib al-Kindi, the brother of Marwan bin Muharib al-Kindi, Muda'is bin Sul al-Absi, Majid bin al-Asamm al-Kinani, Muwadi' bin Omar al-Sabbi, Dawud bin Shihab al-Barqi, Ghulam bin Sayf al-Qahri, Musawir bin Sinan al-Kindi, Miqdam bin Ammar al-Manqari, Tha'labiya bin Muhajir al-Absi, Asim bin al-Ashahh al-Dabbi, Omar bin Qudama al-Tamimi, Mutarad bin Uwana al-Tamimi, Mu'ammar bin Thabit al-Tamimi, Tariq bin Malik al-Ma'badi, and Miqdam bin Fahd al-Silmi.