Mu'awiya ibn Khudayj al-Kindi

Mu'awiya ibn Hudayj al-Kindi, then al-Sakuni. Amr ibn al-As sent him to Umar ibn al-Khattab with the letter of the conquest of Alexandria, and with it the fifth. ¹

Al-Baladhuri says that he raided Sicily in the days of Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, and was the first to raid it (the first raid on Sicily). He lost an eye in Nubia, and so he was one-eyed (the treaty of Nubia). ¹

He is Mu'awiya ibn Hudayj ibn Jafna of Tujib, al-Sakuni; al-Bukhari said his ascription is Khawlani and that al-Zuhri counts him among the Egyptians, and his kunya is Abu Na'im, also said Abu Abd al-Rahman ². He came to the Prophet ﷺ as an envoy, witnessed the conquest of Egypt, was the bearer to Umar of the news of the conquest of Alexandria, lost his eye in the Nubia raid with Abd Allah ibn Abi Sarh, raided the Maghreb repeatedly — the last in the year 50 AH — and died in 52 AH ².

Al-Baghawi said he was Mu'awiya's governor over Egypt; Ibn Hajar explains that Mu'awiya put him in command of the army prepared for Egypt, in which Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Siddiq marched, and when they killed Muhammad the men pledged to Mu'awiya, and later he governed Egypt for Yazid ².

Abu Dawud and al-Nasa'i narrated for him a hadith on forgetfulness in prayer, al-Nasa'i one on treating oneself with cupping and washing, and al-Baghawi narrated that he heard the Prophet say that a morning or an evening in the path of God is better than the world and what it holds ².

Mu'awiya ibn Hudayj was a Companion who witnessed the conquest of Egypt, carried the news of Alexandria's fall to Umar ibn al-Khattab, lost an eye in the Nubia raid, later governed Egypt, and died in 52 AH ².

• al-Isaba fi Tamyiz al-Sahaba, entry 8355 (al-Maktaba al-Asriyya scan, p. 1429); it vocalises his father's name "Hudayj"; the museum record gives "Khudayj".