Yazid ibn al-Mundhir

Yazid ibn al-Mundhir (may God be pleased with him) ibn Sarh ibn Khanas ibn Sinan ibn Ubayd ibn Adi ibn Ghanm ibn Ka'b ibn Salama al-Ansari al-Khazraji al-Sulami, counted by Ibn Ishaq among the men of Aqaba; al-Isaba tells of his coming in a delegation dressed in white ¹.

Ibn Hajar writes in al-Isaba: Yazid ibn al-Mundhir ibn Sarh — with unpointed letters — ibn Khanas — with an unmarked kha' and a light nun — ibn Sinan ibn Ubayd ibn Adi ibn Ghanm ibn Ka'b ibn Salama al-Ansari al-Khazraji al-Sulami: Ibn Ishaq counted him among those who witnessed Aqaba ¹.

Ibn Manda transmitted with his chain, by way of al-Walid ibn Yazid from his father from Yazid, that he came in a delegation wearing white garments, and it was said of him: "Why do you not take this man as your model — ascetic in this world, desirous of the next?"; Ibn Manda abbreviated the chain, and Abu Nu'aym reported it in a similar way ¹. Ibn Hajar comments on the route with hesitation over whether the transmitter's name was Zayd or Yazid, approving the wording of Ibn Abd al-Barr and of Ibn Makula and al-Daraqutni at that point ¹.

Yazid ibn al-Mundhir was a man of the Ansar who witnessed the pledge of Aqaba; the biographical books tell that he came in a delegation clothed in white until it was said of him that he was the ascetic in this world desirous of the next.

• Al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba, entry 9432 (scan 20200217, pp. 1600–1601).
• The story is transmitted in mursal form via Ibn Manda; the well-known wording in it is given without addition to the scan.
• Vowel-letters noted in the text: Sarh, Khanas — as corrected by the editor in the apparatus.