Khubayb ibn ʿAdī in Captivity

They are both killed. As for Khubayb, it is known that he was crucified, and his body remained on that cross until ʿAmr ibn Umayyah al-Ḍamrī comes and takes the body and buries it.

Khubayb (may Allah be pleased with him), before his death, asks something of a woman, because he was held captive in the house of this woman, who had lost her husband^**, and they said that it was Khubayb who killed her husband in the Battle of Badr. It was this family that was going to take revenge, and he was in their house. He tells this woman, "Can you bring me a steel blade, so that I can prepare myself for death?" What he wants to do with this blade is to shave his pubic hair. She sends him the blade with her child, a young child. In one narration it says that she gave it to him, but then the child crawled onto the lap of Khubayb. It doesn't make a difference: the child ended up in the hands, in the lap, of Khubayb. When the woman sees her child in his lap, and he is holding this blade in his hand, what would she think? Khubayb saw that she was worried that he might kill this child, but he told her, "Mā kuntu li-afʿala dhālika, in shāʾ Allāh": "That isn't something I would do. In shāʾ Allāh, that isn't going to be something that I would do."

The lesson to learn here is that, even though he was going to be killed by the kuffār, that didn't make him take revenge on a child, an innocent child. A Muslim isn't a traitor; a Muslim wouldn't betray; and a Muslim wouldn't take away the life of an innocent human being. Even though he had a chance, and he already knew that he would be killed, and he could have taken revenge on that child, he didn't. And that woman said, "I have never seen a prisoner better than him. I would come in and see him eating from a plate full of grapes, when there are not any grapes in Makkah whatsoever. And I am sure that he received those grapes from the angels." This is what a mushrik woman was saying. These are karāmāt.

Another lesson also is that it shows that, even though he was facing death, he still wanted to fulfil the sunnah. He was going to shave his pubic hair, which is one of the sunan al-fiṭrah. He wanted to do that, even though one could argue and say, "Well, the ummah has more important things to think about than shaving pubic hair. Let us get serious and start taking care of the important things." Well, the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) would take everything seriously. Everything in Islam was serious to them. Even though he is facing death, he still wants to follow the sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him).

Also, before he was crucified, he sought permission from his crucifiers. He said, "Allow me to pray." They did grant him time to pray. He prayed two rakʿahs. When he finished, he looked at them and said, "If it wasn't for the fear of you accusing me of being afraid of death, I would have made these two rakʿahs longer." He made the prayer short, so that they wouldn't think that he was afraid of dying. He is the first one to start the sunnah of praying two rakʿahs before death. Later on, it became a sunnah because of his action.

Khubayb (may Allah be pleased with him) was killed, and Zayd was killed, and ʿAbdullāh ibn Ṭāriq was killed, so now the entire group of ten ended up dead, all of them. Seven were killed on the spot, ʿAbdullāh ibn Ṭāriq was killed on the way to Makkah, and the other two were killed in Makkah. All of them were killed.