Yazid ibn Amir ibn Hadida

Yazid ibn Amir ibn Hadida (may God be pleased with him) ibn Ghanm ibn Sawad ibn Ka'b ibn Salama al-Ansari al-Khazraji, Abu al-Mundhir, counted by Ibn Ishaq among the men of the Aqaba pledge; he later sided with Ali in his wars, which put him in charge of Ali's guard and then of districts in Isfahan, Rayy and Hamadan ¹.

Ibn Hajar writes in al-Isaba: Yazid ibn Amir ibn Hadida ibn Ghanm ibn Sawad ibn Ka'b ibn Salama al-Ansari al-Khazraji, Abu al-Mundhir — Ibn Ishaq counted him among the people of Aqaba ¹. He was then with Ali in his wars, so Ali put him in charge of his guard, and afterwards appointed him over Isfahan, Rayy and Hamadan ¹. He transmitted from Mu'adh, Ibn Mas'ud and others, and Abu Idris al-Khawlani, Atiyya ibn Qays, Abu Qilaba and Ma'bad al-Juhani transmitted from him ¹.

The entry presents a Khazraji who gave the pledge at Aqaba, then appears in the later conflicts on Ali's side — first commanding his guard, then holding offices in Isfahan, Rayy and Hamadan; it also makes him a transmitter from Mu'adh ibn Jabal and Ibn Mas'ud, with a generation of Successors narrating from him ¹.

Yazid ibn Amir was a Companion of Khazraj who witnessed the pledge of Aqaba; in the time of Ali he led his guard and governed several districts, and he narrated knowledge from senior Companions.

• Al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba, entry 9377 (scan 20200217, pp. 1593–1594).
• The scan text is set in two interleaved columns; the sentence order here follows the entry's own context.
• "Put him in charge of his guard" precedes the postings to Isfahan, Rayy and Hamadan in the scan.