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Muʿāwiyah ibn Hudayj ibn Jafna ibn Qatirah (1) al-Kindī – cited by Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī and Ibn Mājah.

An emir and commander of military detachments, he was also known as Abū Nuʿaym and Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kindī, later al-Sakūnī.

He was a Companion who transmitted only a small number of reports from the Prophet ﷺ.

He likewise narrated from ʿUmar, Abū Dharr, and Muʿāwiyah.

Those who reported from him include his son ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; ʿUlayy ibn Rabāḥ; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Shimāsah al-Mahri; Suwayd ibn Qays al-Tujībī; ʿUrfuṭah ibn ʿAmr; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mālik al-Shaybānī; Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥujayr; and Salamah ibn Aslam.

He served as governor of Egypt for Muʿāwiyah, led the expedition to the Maghrib, and was present at the battle of Yarmūk.

Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt relates in his Juzʾ: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd told us, from Saʿīd ibn Abī Ayyūb, from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, from Suwayd ibn Qays, from Muʿāwiyah ibn Hudayj, who said:

The Prophet ﷺ said, “If a remedy is to be found in anything, it is in a draught of honey, or the incision of a cupping-glass, or cauterization with fire—yet I dislike to be cauterized.” (2)