Zayd al-Khayl comes with the delegation of Tayy

A delegation of Tayy came to the Prophet, and among them was their chief Zayd al-Khayl. Islam was offered to them, and they embraced it and their Islam was good. ¹

Ibn Ishaq relates, on the authority of men of Tayy whom he does not suspect, that the Prophet said: no man of the Arabs was mentioned to him for merit and then came to him without being found less than what was said of him, except Zayd al-Khayl, who did not reach all that was in him. ¹ He then named him Zayd al-Khayr (Zayd of Goodness), and granted him Fayd and lands with it, and wrote this down for him. ¹ When he went out returning to his people, the Prophet said: "If Zayd survives the fever of Medina." Ibn Ishaq says that the Prophet named the fever by a name other than "the fever" and "Umm Mildamm", and the narrator did not establish it. ¹ When he had come from the land of Najd to a water of its waters called Farda, he was struck by the fever there and died. ¹ When he felt death approaching, he said two verses mentioning his people's departure toward the eastern lands and his leaving him in a house at Farda in Najd. ¹ After his death his wife took the books that the Prophet had granted him and burned them with fire. ¹

"Fayd" is the name of a place; "munjid" means in Najd; "yubriyhi" means the journey wears him down and weakens him. ¹

• The report is from "men of Tayy whom he does not suspect"; in the name of the fever the narrator "did not establish it". ¹
• The order of this delegation is after the delegation of Banu Hanifa in Ibn Ishaq, and before the report of Adi ibn Hatim (may God be pleased with him). ¹