Abu Qays ibn Sayfi ibn al-Aslat

Abu Qays ibn Sayfi ibn al-Aslat (may God be pleased with him), a poet and leader of the Aws before Islam. He was the chief of "the Aws of God", who were the Banu Umayya ibn Zayd, Khatma, Wa'il and Waqif, of the Aws. ²

Al-Samhudi relates that he held his people back from Islam at the time of the mission of Mus'ab ibn Umayr. They continued this way until the Prophet ﷺ emigrated and Badr, Uhud and the Trench had passed, and then they all embraced Islam. ²

The data classify him as a poet and a Companion in the Sunni manner. His year of death and the details of his personal conversion need an additional source.