Among the junior Companions:
46 – al-Dahhāk ibn Qays ibn Khālid al-Fihrī al-Qurashī * (S)
The commander, Abū Umayya.
Some said he was Abū Unays; others, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; and still others, Abū Saʿīd al-Fihrī al-Qurashī.
He is counted among the younger Companions and has transmitted several hadiths. Al-Nasāʾī recorded his reports, and he also narrated from Ḥabīb ibn Maslama.
Those who reported from him include: Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān—who described him as trustworthy—Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, al-Shaʿbī, Muḥammad ibn Suwayd al-Fihrī, ʿUmayr ibn Saʿd, Simāk ibn Ḥarb, and Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī.
Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir (1) said: “He witnessed the conquest of Damascus and settled there, and he was in command of the Damascene forces on the day of Ṣiffīn.”
Ḥajjāj ibn Muḥammad narrated from Ibn Jurayj, who said: “Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥa related to me, from…"
(*) Mentioned in the following sources: Ibn Saad, Tabaqat, 7:410; Nasab Quraysh, p. 447; Khalifah, Tabaqat, nos. 163, 837, 1437, 2831; al-Muhabbar, pp. 295, 302; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, 4:332; Ibn Qutaybah, al-Maʿarif, p. 412; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, 4:457; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlama al-Amsar, no. 368; al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak, 3:524; Ibn Hazm, Jumhurat Ansab al-Arab, p. 178; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istihab, p. 744; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh Dimashq, 8:205 b; Ibn al-Athir, Usud al-Ghabah, 3:37; Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, 4:149; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 617; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 3:21; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, 1:70; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 2:198 a; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidayah wa-l-Nihayah, 8:241; al-Fasi, al-ʿAqd al-Thamin, 5:48; Ibn Hajar, al-Isabah, 2:207; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 4:448; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 149.
(1) In his Tarikh, 8:255 b.