while the young boys were prodding him with palm-stalks, beating him, and shouting, “Enemy of Allah, you have disbelieved after having believed!” He kept insisting, “By Allah, I had never truly believed.” When Abū Bakr spoke to him, he returned to Islam and the Caliph granted him safety.

Al-Madaʾinī reports on the authority of ʿĀmir ibn Abī Muḥammad: ʿUyayna once said to ʿUmar, “Be on your guard, or else expel the non-Arabs (al-ʿajam) from Medina, for I cannot trust that one of them will not stab you.”

Al-Madaʾinī also narrates—through ʿAbd Allāh ibn Fāʾid—that Umm al-Banīn, daughter of ʿUyayna, was married to ʿUthmān. ʿUyayna entered upon ʿUthmān without permission, and the Caliph reproached him. ʿUyayna replied, “I never imagined I would be barred from a man of Muḍar.” ʿUthmān said, “Come closer and have some supper.” ʿUyayna answered, “I am fasting.” ʿUthmān asked, “You fast at night?” He replied, “I have found fasting by night easier for me!”

Al-Madaʾinī adds that ʿUyayna later went blind during ʿUthmān’s caliphate.

Abū al-Ashhab relates from al-Ḥasan: ʿUthmān once took ʿUyayna to task, saying, “Did I not do such-and-such for you? You used to visit ʿUmar but you do not come to us!” ʿUyayna retorted, “ʿUmar was better for us than you: he enriched us by his gifts and made us fear him, so we were more God-conscious.”

Quṭba ibn ʿĀmir, Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī al-Sulamī, fought at Badr and at both Pledges of ʿAqaba.

Qays ibn Qahd ibn Qays ibn Thaʿlaba al-Anṣārī belonged to the clan of Banū Mālik ibn al-Najjār.

Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī said that he is the grandfather of Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, although most scholars disagree and say instead that he is the grandfather of Abū Maryam ʿAbd al-Ghafar ibn al-Qāsim of Kufa.

Ibn Mākūlā states that he fought at Badr; his son Sulaym transmitted reports from him, as did Qays ibn