Sayyidah Umm Qays bint Mihsan (may Allah be pleased with her) relates that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away, Sayyiduna Ukkashah (may Allah be pleased with him) was forty years old, and one year after that, in the year 12 AH, during the caliphate of Sayyiduna Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him), he was martyred at Buzakhah. Ukkashah (may Allah be pleased with him) was among the most handsome of people.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The first group to enter Paradise will enter with faces shining like the moon on the fourteenth night; then after them will be those who are like the brightest shining star in the sky." Hearing this, Sayyiduna Ukkashah bin Mihsan (may Allah be pleased with him) stood up and said: O Messenger of Allah! Pray to Allah to include me among them. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Allah! Include him among them." Then another man stood up and said: O Messenger of Allah! Pray to Allah to include me among them as well. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Ukkashah has preceded you to it." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.