Abdullah ibn Unays

Abdullah ibn Unays al-Juhani, Abu Yahya al-Madani, an ally of the Banu Salima among the Ansar ¹. Ibn al-Kalbi and al-Waqidi said he descended from al-Barak ibn Wabara of Qudaa. The descendants of al-Barak joined Juhayna, so he was called al-Juhani, al-Qudai, al-Ansari and al-Salami ¹.

Ibn Ishaq said he witnessed the Aqaba pledges and what followed ¹. He was one of those who broke the idols of the Banu Salima ¹. Ibn Yunus said he prayed towards 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 report this ¹.

Ahmad reports, through Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Aqil, from Jabir: "A hadith about retaliation reached me, whose narrator was in Egypt, so I travelled to him a month's journey." Al-Bukhari, in the Book of Knowledge, mentions that Jabir travelled a month's journey to Abdullah ibn Unays (may God be pleased with him) ¹.

Ali ibn al-Madini, Khalifa and others distinguished between the Juhani and Abdullah ibn Unays al-Ansari, who narrated the hadith about tying the mouth of the water-skin. Al-Baghawi, Ibn al-Sakan and others affirmed that they were one man, and Ibn Hajar judges this the stronger view. Some said he was a Zuhri, from a clan of Juhayna called Banu Zuhra, and Abu al-Fadl ibn Tahir affirmed this ¹.

Al-Mizzi, in al-Tahdhib, reports from Ibn Yunus that he dated his death to the year eighty. Ibn Hajar objects that this confuses two biographies, and that "what is known is that he died in Syria in the year fifty-four" ¹. Al-Bukhari, in al-Tarikh, reports a statement that explicitly says he died after Abu Qatada ¹.

Ibn Ishaq relates two reports about him. The first concerns his blow to al-Yasir ibn Rizam when al-Yasir turned back on his camel: he cut off his leg, and he himself was struck on the head with his goad. The Prophet spat on his wound, and it never festered ². The second concerns Khalid ibn Sufyan al-Hudhali, whom he killed at Uranah after the Prophet had sent him alone. The Prophet allowed him to claim descent from Khuza'a and to say about the Prophet whatever would reassure the people. When he returned, the Prophet gave him a staff to be a sign between them on the Day of Resurrection, and Abdullah recited verses about him ^{3 4}.