21 – Qays ibn Saʿd ibn ʿUbada ibn Dulaym al-Ansari * (ʿ),
son of Ḥaritha ibn Abi Ḥazīma (1) ibn Thaʿlaba ibn Ṭarīf ibn al-Khazraj ibn Saʿida ibn Kaʿb ibn al-Khazraj; a commander and combatant, Abū ʿAbd Allāh, the leader of the Khazraj and the son of their leader Abū Thābit; an Ansari, Khazraji, Saʿidi; Companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and the son of a Companion.
He has transmitted several hadiths.
Narrators from him include: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mālik al-Jayshānī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, Abū ʿAmmār al-Hamadhānī, ʿUrwa, al-Shaʿbī, Maymūn ibn Abī Shabīb, ʿArīb ibn Ḥumayd al-Hamadhānī, al-Walīd ibn ʿAbda, and others.
He visited Muʿāwiya, who showed him respect and gave him money.
He also taught hadith in Kūfa, Syria, and Egypt.
Al-Wāqidī said: “His kunya was Abū ʿAbd al-Malik. He remained at ʿAlī’s side, but when ʿAlī was killed, Qays returned to his homeland.”