Rabadhah, that terribly dry and lifeless desert It was in the same place, too, that he lost his wife and children, and he himself died of hunger and illness. Only one of his daughters stayed alive to live.
According to historians Abu Dharr spent one year in ash-Sham where he had been exiled in the year 29 of the Hijrah. In the year 30 Mu'awiyah complained of him to 'Uthman, following which he was summoned to Medina in the sorry conditions described before. Then in the same year he was exiled to ar-Rabadhah, where he died in the year 31 or 32 of the Hijrah.

A fable in the history of Islam

Many things have been said about the reason for Aba Dharr's exile which I feel disgusted to mention.
at-Tabari

What we have described in the proceeding pages concerning Abu Dharr's life, and his exiles from Medina to ash-Sham, from ash-Sham to Medina and from Medina to ar-Rabadhah, was only a brief account derived from the reliable researches of historians. But what has been narrated about this subject by at Tabari and his followers, namely Ibn al-Athir, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Khaldun and Abu al-Fida' are a series of lies and forgeries all of which were originally fabricated by Sayf ibn 'Umar, the great Kufi interpolator and forger of history. at-Tabari and succeeding historians have adopted the historical events of those years from the fables invented in the imagination of Sayf and have thus filled their books and history of Islam with these lies and fables.
at-Tabari writes in his history: In this year, namely the year 30 of the Hijrah, the incident of Abu Dharr has taken place, namely his expulsion from ash-Sham to Medina by Mu'awiyah. Narrators have said much about this hideous exile which I have no inclination to quote.
But those who offer an excuse for Mu'awiyah in this incident, have quoted a story narrated by Sayf from Yazid al-Faq'asi. He