Abu Waqid al-Laythi

Al-Harith ibn Malik, Abu Waqid al-Laythi (may God be pleased with him), a Companion known by his kunya. ¹

Ibn Hajar enters him in al-Isaba by name at no. 1528 — "al-Harith ibn Malik, Abu Waqid al-Laythi" — and again among the kunyas at no. 10743: "Abu Waqid al-Laythi: his name is disputed — it was said al-Harith ibn Malik, it was said Ibn Awf, and it was said Awf ibn al-Harith ibn Usayd ibn Jabir ibn Abd Manat ibn Shaj'a ibn Amir ibn Layth ibn Bakr ibn Abd Manat ibn Ali ibn Kinana; he was an ally of Banu Asad." ^{1 2}

Al-Bukhari, Ibn Hibban, al-Bawirdi and Abu Ahmad al-Hakim held that he witnessed Badr; Abu Umar said it was claimed he witnessed Badr but it is not established. Ibn Sa'd said he accepted Islam early and carried the banner of Banu Layth, Damra and Sa'd ibn Bakr on the day of the Conquest and at Hunayn, mustered Banu Layth in the Tabuk campaign, and had earlier gone to Mecca and resided there. ²

It was said he died in year seventy-five — al-Baghawi and others were decisive for this — and it was said year eighty-five; al-Bukhari transmits that he died in Mu'awiya's caliphate, and it was said he was buried in the cemetery of the Emigrants. ²

Al-Sha'bi reported of him that he heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say on the day of the Conquest: "Mecca will never be raided after today until the Day of Resurrection." Al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Hibban transmitted and authenticated his hadith, and al-Daraqutni transmitted it through al-Sha'bi from him. ¹