Qais bin Saad bin Ubadah Al-Saadi Al-Khazraji
A venerable companion from the most honorable and most ancient lineage of Arab families. His father is the venerable companion Saad bin Ubadah, Sayyid al-Khazraj.
He honored his father and grandfather
The Qais family, as was the custom of the wealthy and noble Arabs at that time, had a caller who would stand on top of their lofty place and call the guests to their food during the day or light a fire to guide the wandering stranger at night. People at that time would say: “Whoever loves lard and meat, let him come to Atam Dulaim bin Haritha”… and Dulaim. Ibn Haritha is the second grandfather of Qais. In this ancient house, Qais nurtured generosity and tolerance. It was said about his father Saad: “The man from the Ansar used to go to his home, with one of the immigrants, or with two, or with three. Saad bin Ubadah used to set off with eighty.
I created and raised him
He was one of the tallest and most beautiful people, and no hair grew on his face. The Ansar treated him as a leader from a young age. They used to say: If we could buy Qays a beard with our money, we would do so.
Before Islam
When Qays, before Islam, treated people with his intelligence, they could not tolerate a flash of his mind, and there was only one in Medina and its environs who took a thousand accounts of his cunning. When he converted to Islam, Islam taught him to treat people with his sincerity, not with his cunning. Then he put his cunning aside, and no longer used it. His decisive maneuvers became, and whenever he faced a difficult situation, he became nostalgic for his restricted cunning, and he said his famous phrase: “If it were not for Islam, I would have planned a plan that the Arabs cannot tolerate.”
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Qais was raised from a young age on courage and generosity, until he became an example of his goodness and generosity. One time, an old woman came to Qais complaining of her poverty, and he said to his servants: Fill her house with bread, ghee, and dates. [Ibn Asakir].
Qais used to feed people during his travels with the Prophet, and when he ran out of what he had, he would borrow money and call out every day: Come to the meat and porridge. [Ibn Asakir].
He sold a business for ninety thousand, then he ordered someone to call out to the city: Whoever wants a loan, let him come. Many people came to him, and he lent them forty thousand and gave the rest in charity. One day he fell ill and his visitors and visitors became less frequent, so he asked his wife: Why did I say to Awadi? She replied: Because they are ashamed for your religion. So he ordered a herald to call out: Whoever has a debt, it is his. So people came to visit him until they demolished a step on which they were climbing to him. Because of his many habits
He used to say: Oh God, grant me wealth and good deeds, for good deeds are only good with money. [Ibn Asakir].
Kathir ibn al-Salt came to him and asked him for thirty thousand as a loan, so he gave it to him, and when he returned it to him, Qays refused to accept it, and said: We will not take back anything we gave him.
Qais participated with three hundred companions in the Battle of Saif al-Bahr, led by Abu Ubaidah bin al-Jarrah. They were struck by severe hunger and their food was exhausted. So Qais got up and slaughtered three camels for them, then borrowed and promised the debtor that he would return his money to him in Medina. He slaughtered three more, then borrowed and promised the debtor that he would His money was returned to him in Medina, so he slaughtered three more until Abu Ubaidah forbade him from doing so when God blessed the army with a large whale from which they continued to eat for eighteen days, and when they returned to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and mentioned that to him, he said on the authority of Qais: (As for him, he is in the house of Jud) [Ibn soldiers].
Abu Bakr and Omar - may God be pleased with them - spoke about Qais’s generosity and generosity, and they said: If we leave this boy because of his generosity, his family will destroy (wipe out) his father’s wealth. When Saad heard that, he stood up with the Prophet and said: Who will excuse me from Ibn Abi Quhafa (Abu Bakr) and Ibn Al-Khattab? They are being stingy with my son.
His status with the Messenger of God
Qays was a companion of the Prophet, and Al-Bukhari and Al-Tirmidhi narrated on the authority of Anas ibn Malik that he said: “Qays ibn Saad was in the presence of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, in the position of a prince who had the police.”
His narration of the hadith
Narrated on his authority: Abu Ammar Urayb bin Hamid Al-Hamdani, Abdul Rahman bin Abi Laila, Amr bin Sharhabeel, Amer Al-Shaabi, Urwa bin Al-Zubair, Muhammad bin Sharhabeel, Maymoon bin Abi Shabib, Al-Walid bin Abda Al-Sahmi, Abdullah bin Malik Al-Jishani, and Bakr bin Sawada. Tha'labah bin Abi Malik and Barim bin Abu Al-Ala.
His role in battles
He was known for his courage, bravery, and bravery. He was a carrier of the Ansar banner with the Messenger of God, and he witnessed the invasions with the Messenger. The Prophet took the banner on the day of the conquest of Mecca from his father Saad and gave it to his son Qais. He was a strong hero, a brave knight, and a great warrior.
His position with Ali bin Abi Talib in the strife
Qais struggled with the Rightly Guided Caliphs, and the Caliph appointed him to rule Egypt, then he removed him from it and sat with him after Muawiyah deceived Ali and the people and declared Qais’ loyalty to Muawiyah. This was a deception by Muawiyah because he was afraid of Qais’ cunning and cleverness, and Ali appointed Muhammad bin Abi Bakr in the place of Qais, and he continued to do so. Muawiyah ruled over Egypt until he annexed Egypt to his rule.
On the day of Siffin, Qais was with Ali against Muawiyah, and he was sitting with himself and plotting the trick that could lead to Muawiyah and those with him in a day or a few days. However, he examined this trick of his, from which his intelligence had blossomed, and found it to be an evil and dangerous deception, and then he mentioned the words of God Almighty: (Bad deception only befalls those who commit it.) So he immediately rose up, asking for forgiveness.
When Caliph Ali was martyred, he pledged allegiance to his son Al-Hassan and led five thousand men to fight Muawiyah, but Al-Hasan preferred to spare the blood of the Muslims, so he negotiated with Muawiyah and pledged allegiance to him over the caliphate, and he gave it up. So Qays returned to Medina, gathered his people, and addressed them and said: If you wish, I will fight with you until the quickest of us dies. And if you want, I will take security for you. So his soldiers chose security and said: Take security for us. So he took their safety from Muawiyah. [Ibn Asakir].
His story with the tallest man in Rum
It was said that the king of the Romans sent to Muawiyah two men from his army, claiming that one of them was the strongest of the Romans, and the other was the tallest of the Romans. So see if there is anyone among your people who surpasses them in strength and height? If there are those among your people who are superior to them, I will send you such-and-such prisoners and such-and-such artifacts, and if there is no one in your army who is stronger or taller than them, then guide me for three years. When they were with Muawiyah, he said: Who is this strong man? They said: He only has one of two men, either Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, or Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, so Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, who is the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib, was brought.
When the people gathered with Muawiyah, Muawiyah said to him: Do you know what I was sent to you for? he said no! So he mentioned to him the matter of Rumi and the severity of his suffering. He said to Rumi: Either you sit for me or I sit with you and you give me your hand or I give you my hand. Which of us is able to raise the other from his place by defeating him, otherwise he has been defeated? He said to him: What do you want? You sit or I sit? Al-Rumi said to him: Rather, sit down, so Muhammad bin Al-Hanafiyyah sat down and gave Al-Rumi his hand. Al-Rumi tried with all his might to remove it from its place or move it to straighten it, but he was unable to do so, and he did not find a way to it, so Al-Rumi was defeated: At that, he appeared to those with him.
The delegations from the Roman lands said that he had been defeated. Then Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya stood up and said to Rumi: Sit down for me. So he sat down and gave Muhammad his hand. He did not give him time to raise him up quickly, raised him in the air and then threw him on the ground. This pleased Muawiyah with great pleasure. Qais bin Saad got up and stepped away from the people, then took off his trousers and gave them to that tall Rumi, who put them on and reached his breasts, with their ends scratching the ground, so Rumi admitted that he had prevailed. Their king sent what he had committed to Muawiyah
Qais narrated many of the hadiths of the Messenger of God, and a group of companions and followers narrated from him. Qais lived in Medina until he died at the end of Muawiyah’s caliphate.
