Abdullah ibn Unays

Abdullah ibn Unays al-Juhani, Abu Yahya al-Madani, an ally of Banu Salama of the Ansar ¹. Ibn al-Kalbi and al-Waqidi said he was of the children of al-Bark ibn Wabra of Quda'a — al-Bark's descendants having entered Juhayna — so he was called al-Juhani, al-Quda'i, al-Ansari and al-Sulami ¹.

Ibn Ishaq said he witnessed al-Aqaba and what came after ¹. He was among those who smashed Banu Salama's idols ¹. Ibn Yunus said he prayed toward both qiblas, entered Egypt and went out to Ifriqiya ¹.

Ibn Ishaq said the Prophet sent him alone to Khalid ibn Nubayh al-Anazi, and he killed him; Abu Dawud and others recorded it ¹.

Ahmad relates through Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Aqil from Jabir: a hadith on retaliation reached me whose narrator was in Egypt, so I journeyed a month to him; Bukhari in the Book of Knowledge mentions that Jabir journeyed a month to Abdullah ibn Unays ¹.

Ali ibn al-Madini, Khalifa and more than one distinguished between al-Juhani and Abdullah ibn Unays al-Ansari who related the hadith "the more scarred the rim of the water-skin"; al-Baghawi, Ibn al-Sakan and others asserted they are one, and Ibn Hajar sees that as sounder — some have said he was a Zuhri of a Juhayna subtribe called Banu Zuhra, as Abu al-Fadl ibn Tahir asserted ¹.

Al-Mizzi in al-Tahdhib mentions from Ibn Yunus that he dated his death to year eighty; Ibn Hajar objects that this conflates two biographies, and "the well-known view is that he died in Syria in year fifty-four" ¹. Bukhari in al-Tarikh records what plainly states he died after Abu Qatada ¹.