those Yemenites who obey me, I will certainly say to them: “Keep yourselves apart from Quraysh along with us; let them kill one another, and whoever gains the upper hand, we shall follow him.” (1)
I (the author) say: Ibn Hudayj was a ruler whose word was heeded, one of the nobles of Kindah; he became enraged on behalf of Ḥujr ibn ʿAdī because Ḥujr, too, was of Kindah.
Ibn Yūnus said: He died in Egypt in the year 52 AH, and his descendants remain in Egypt to this day.
I say: The majority have stated that he was a Companion.
Ibn Saʿd said: He enjoyed Companionship.
Elsewhere Ibn Saʿd listed him in another section, among the first generation after the Companions, saying: “Muʿāwiyah ibn Hudayj al-Kindī met ʿUmar.”
11 – Abū Barzah al-Aslamī, Nadlah ibn ʿUbayd (ʿ)
The Companion of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, is Nadlah ibn ʿUbayd according to the soundest view.
Others say: Nadlah ibn ʿAmr.
Still others say: Nadlah ibn ʿĀʾidh.
Some report him as Ibn ʿAbd Allāh.
Others: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nadlah.
And yet others: Khālid ibn Nadlah.
He transmitted several hadiths.