Mu'awiyah ibn AbuSufyan

Abdullah ibn Busr, may Allah be pleased with him, was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ who was among the youngest companions to narrate directly from the Prophet, having met him as a child. He lived to an extraordinary age and was considered the last surviving companion in the region of Syria and the Levant, dying around 88 AH at a reported age of approximately one hundred years. This longevity made him an especially precious source of prophetic tradition in the late first century of Islam, as Tabi'i scholars of the next generation could receive hadiths directly from him with only one link (himself) between them and the Prophet ﷺ. He narrated hadiths on supplication, the virtue of fasting on certain days, the importance of prayer, and other matters of worship. Among his notable narrations is the hadith on fasting on Saturdays apart from what is obligatory, and the hadiths on performing good deeds consistently even if small. He settled in Homs, Syria, and became a major reference for the scholars of that region. His narrations appear in the Sunan of Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah, and other major collections.