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al-Ahnaf bin Qays

al-Dahhak/Sakhr bin Qays b. Mua'wiya b. Hussain b. 'Ubada b. Nazl b. Murra b. 'Ubaid b. al-Harith

Abu Bahr

Full lineage : Al-Ahnaf ibn Qays b. Mua'wiyah b. Husein b. 'Ubada b. Nazl b. Murra b. 'Ubaid b. al-Harith b. 'Amr b. Ka'b b. Sa'd b. Zayd Manat b. Tamim <br> He was a reliable and trustworthy with few hadiths. He was born with a foot deformity (ahnaf). He was reported to have been in a state of janaba on his way to Persia and instead of waking any of his slaves or army up, he searched for water/snow until his feet bled. He was good friends with Mus'ab ibn az-Zubayr, the then current governor of Kufa. He was requested by 'Abdu'l-Malik to become the ruler of Syria.

Kunya
Abu Bahr
Also known as
الأحنف بن قيس بن معاوية
Died
67 AH or 72 AH
Lived in
Hijaz, Basra, Persia, Kufa
Class
tabi'i

Hadith appearances

20 hadiths · 6 collections

Hadith transmissions

Hadiths in which this narrator appears, with their position in the chain.

Research data and provenancethin dossier · expand

Technical evidence counts from parsed rijāl entries and reviewable fact extraction. These support the passages shown below.

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Tier
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Source entries
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Strong identity entries
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Chronology hints
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Attribute hints
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Classical evidence · أقوال الجرح والتعديل

1 book · 1 entry

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    Full lineage : Al-Ahnaf ibn Qays b. Mua'wiyah b. Husein b. 'Ubada b. Nazl b. Murra b. 'Ubaid b. al-Harith b. 'Amr b. Ka'b b. Sa'd b. Zayd Manat b. Tamim <br> He was a reliable and trustworthy with few hadiths. He was born with a foot deformity (ahnaf). He was reported to have been in a state of janaba on his way to Persia and instead of waking any of his slaves or army up, he searched for water/snow until his feet bled. He was good friends with Mus'ab ibn az-Zubayr, the then current governor of Kufa. He was requested by 'Abdu'l-Malik to become the ruler of Syria.