- Al-Sāʾib ibn Yazīd ibn Saʿīd ibn Thumāmah al-Kindī
He was known by two kunyas: Abū ʿAbd Allāh and Abū Yazīd al-Kindī. A Medinan, he was also called “the nephew of Namir,” a designation by which his family was commonly recognized.
His grandfather Saʿīd ibn Thumāmah was a confederate of the Banū ʿAbd Shams.
Al-Sāʾib said, “My father took me on pilgrimage with the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—when I was seven years old ⦗1⦘.”
I (the compiler) say: He possessed a share of the Prophet’s companionship and transmitted hadith.
Among those who narrated from him were: al-Zuhrī; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qāriẓ; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī; al-Juʿayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; his son ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Sāʾib; ʿUmar ibn ʿAtāʾ ibn Abī al-Khuwwār; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf; and others.
Abū Maʿshar al-Sindī reported—from Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb—from al-Sāʾib, who said:
“I saw the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—kill ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khatal on the day Mecca was conquered; they had dragged him out from beneath the curtains …”
(*) Khalifah, Tabaqat, p. 39; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir 4/150; al-Fasawi, al-Maʿrifah wa-l-Tarikh 1/358; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlamaʾ al-Amsar, p. 141; al-Tabarani, al-Muʿjam 7/172; Ibn Hazm, Jamharat Ansab al-Arab, p. 428; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istiʿab, p. 576; al-Dhahabi, al-Jamʿ bayna Rijal al-Sahihayn 1/202; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh 7/26b; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghabah 2/321; al-Nawawi, Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ wa-l-Lughat 1/1/208; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 466; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam 3/369; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 2/5b; al-Safadi, al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat 15/104; al-Yafiʿi, Mirat al-Jinan 1/180; Ibn Hajar, al-Isabah 2/12; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 3/450; al-Khazraji, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 113; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab 1/99; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tahdhib 6/63.
(1) Reported by al-Bukhari 4/61 (Book of Hajj, chapter: The pilgrimage of a child); by al-Tabarani (no. 6678); and by Ahmad 3/449. Also transmitted by al-Tirmidhi (no. 925) with the additional phrase “during the Farewell Pilgrimage”; al-Tirmidhi graded it ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ (sound and authentic).