ʿAbd Allah ibn Malik ibn al-Qishb (1) — whose given name was Jundub ibn Naḍlah ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Rafiʿ al-Azdi, Abū Muhammad, an ally of Banū ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, better known as Ibn Buḥaynah — Buḥaynah (2) being his mother, the daughter of al-Aratt ibn al-Muṭṭalib ibn ʿAbd Manāf.
He embraced Islam early, accompanied the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and was an ascetic devoted to fasting and night prayer, one of those who would fast unceasingly throughout the year.
Ibn Saʿd said: “He lived in Batn Rīm, thirty miles from Madinah, and he died during Marwān’s second term of office, sometime between 54 and 58 AH.”
It is remarkable that Ibn al-Jawzī, after citing this statement from Muḥammad ibn Saʿd, nevertheless recorded his death in the present year, meaning 59 AH. Allah knows best.
Qays ibn Saʿd ibn ʿUbādah al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī (3): a distinguished Companion, like his father. In the two Ṣaḥīḥs there is his hadith on standing for a funeral bier (4); in the Musnad, his report on fasting the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ (5), the hadith describing the washing of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, in their house (6), and several other narrations (7).
(1) Ibn Sa‘d, al-Tabaqāt, vol. 4, p. 342; Ahmad, al-Musnad, vol. 5, p. 344; al-Bukhārī, al-Kabīr (Tarīkh al-Bukhārī), vol. 5 (t. 17); al-Ma‘ārif, p. 325; al-Ma‘rifa wa-l-Tārīkh, vol. 2, pp. 213–214; al-Jarḥ wa-l-Ta‘dīl, vol. 5, p. 150; Ibn Ḥibbān, al-Thiqāt, vol. 3, p. 216; Mashāhīr ʿUlamā’ al-Amṣār (d. 47); al-Istī‘āb, vol. 3, p. 982; al-Jam‘ li-Ibn al-Qaysarānī, vol. 1, p. 242; Ansāb al-Simānī, vol. 1, p. 226; Ibn al-Athīr, Asad al-Ghāba, vol. 3, p. 375; Tahdhīb al-Asmā’ wa-l-Lughāt, vol. 1, p. 261; Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, vol. 15, p. 508; Tadhhīb al-Tahdhīb, vol. 2, p. 178; Tajrīd Asmā’ al-Ṣaḥāba, vol. 1, entry 3515; al-Kāshif, vol. 2, p. 109; Ikmāl Maghlāṭāy, p. 415; Nihāyat al-Sūl, p. 185; al-Iṣāba fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥāba, vol. 2, entry 4928; Tadhhīb al-Tahdhīb, vol. 5, p. 381; Khulāṣat al-Khazarjī, p. 211.
(2) Not found in B.
(3) Ibn Sa‘d, al-Tabaqāt, vol. 6, p. 52; Khalīfa, al-Tabaqāt, entries 603, 973, 2556, 2722; Ahmad, al-Musnad, vol. 3, p. 421; vol. 6, p. 6; al-Muḥbir, pp. 155, 184, 233, 292, 305; al-Bukhārī al-Kabīr, vol. 7, p. 141; al-Ma‘ārif, pp. 259, 593; al-Ma‘rifa wa-l-Tārīkh, vol. 1, p. 299; al-Ṭabarī, Tarīkh al-Ṭabarī, vol. 4, p. 546; vol. 5, p. 163; al-Jarḥ wa-l-Ta‘dīl, vol. 7, p. 99; Murūj al-Dhahab, vol. 3, p. 25; Mashāhīr ʿUlamā’ al-Amṣār (d. 418); al-Wulātā’ wa-l-Quḍāt, p. 20; Jamharat Ansāb al-‘Arab, p. 365; al-Istī‘āb, vol. 3, p. 1289; Tarīkh Baghdad, vol. 1, p. 177; al-Jam‘ bayna Rijāl al-Ṣaḥīḥayn, vol. 2, p. 417; Tarīkh Ibn ʿAsākir, vol. 14, p. 224/b; al-Jāmi‘ al-Uṣūl, vol. 9, p. 101; Ibn al-Athīr, Asad al-Ghāba, vol. 4, p. 424; al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh, vol. 3, p. 268; Tahdhīb al-Asmā’ wa-l-Lughāt, vol. 1, p. 61; Mukhtaṣar Tarīkh Dimashq, vol. 21, p. 102; Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, p. 1135; Tarīkh al-Islām, vol. 2, p. 311; Siyar A‘lam al-Nubalā’, vol. 3, p. 102; Tadhhīb al-Tahdhīb, vol. 3/b, p. 163; al-Kāshif, vol. 2, p. 348; Tadhhīb al-Tahdhīb, vol. 8, p. 395; al-Iṣāba fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥāba, vol. 3, p. 249; al-Nujūm al-Zāhira, vol. 1, p. 95; Ḥasan al-Muḥāḍara, p. 227; Khulāṣat al-Khazarjī, p. 317.
(4) Narrated by al-Bukhārī (no. 1312) and Muslim (no. 961).
(5) Narrated by Ahmad (al-Musnad, vol. 6, p. 6) and al-Nasā’ī (Sunan al-Nasā’ī, vol. 5, p. 49); it is ṣaḥīḥ (authentic).
(6) Narrated by Ahmad (al-Musnad, vol. 6, p. 6) and Ibn Mājah (no. 466); it is ḍa‘īf (weak).
(7) See its narrations in al-Mizzī, Tuḥfat al-Ashrāf, vol. 7, pp. 526–531; and in al-Musnad al-Jāmi‘, vol. 14, pp. 522–532.