أحيحة بن الجلاح

Uhayha ibn al-Julah al-Awsi, chief of Banu Juhjuba of al-Aws, counted among the mightiest of the people of Yathrib before Islam. ²

Ibn al-Athir reports that he ordered the ambush of Ka'b ibn Amr al-Mazini until he was killed, which set off the war of Banu Juhjuba and Banu Mazin, in which he was routed and entered his fortress. ²

Mas'ud ibn Mu'attib al-Thaqafi came to him seeking the Ansar's alliance against Banu Malik; he turned him away but equipped him with a weapon, provisions and a servant who built fortifications, so he built for Ta'if its first defensive tower. ²

Ibn Hajar gives him his own entry in al-Isaba, no. 88: "Uhayha ibn al-Julah", and transmits from Malik in the Muwatta' from Urwa ibn al-Zubayr that a man of the Ansar called Uhayha ibn al-Julah killed his young uncle, on which Urwa said: for this reason a killer does not inherit from the one he killed. ³

Ibn Hajar says he could find no genealogy for this Uhayha in the Ansar lineage books, and that some writers on the Companions claimed he was Uhayha ibn al-Julah ibn Harish, also called Kharrash ibn Juhjuba; the entry lists members of his descendants who held companionship — which flags the error of counting the elder man a Companion. ³