Sayyiduna al-Miswar bin Makhramah (may Allah be pleased with him) states that some cloaks (qaba') came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) distributed them among his Companions. My father said to me: "Come with us to him (peace and blessings be upon him), for cloaks have come to him (peace and blessings be upon him)." My father spoke at the door, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) recognised his voice. He (peace and blessings be upon him) came out carrying a cloak and began saying: "I kept this hidden away for you, I kept this hidden away for you." This hadith is recorded in Sahih Muslim. I have mentioned it here again so that it may be known that he used to come with his father to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and that he (peace and blessings be upon him) treated him kindly and fed him.

Sayyiduna al-Miswar bin Makhramah (may Allah be pleased with him) states that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) addressed us at Arafat. He praised and glorified Allah and then said: "To proceed: the idolaters and idol-worshippers used to depart from this place when the sun was on the peaks of the mountains like the turbans of men (yellowish in colour), whereas we will depart after the sun has set. And they used to depart from al-Mash'ar al-Haram when the sun had (risen and) spread out." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it. By the evidence I have mentioned, it is established that Sayyiduna al-Miswar bin Makhramah (may Allah be pleased with him) heard directly from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), not as some of the common folk among our colleagues suppose, that he only saw him (peace and blessings be upon him) and did not hear anything from him.

Mus'ab bin Abdullah al-Zubayri states that the lineage of al-Dahhak bin Qays bin Khalid bin Wahb goes back to Fihr bin Malik. His mother, Umaymah bint Rabi'ah, belonged to the tribe of Kinanah. She was also the mother of his sister Fatimah bint Qays; that is, al-Dahhak and Fatimah were full brother and sister.

Al-Walid bin Hisham narrates from his father and grandfather that when Ibn Ziyad reached Syria, the people of Syria, except the people of al-Jabiyah, had already pledged allegiance to Abdullah bin al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with them both). Then Ibn Ziyad, along with the Banu Umayyah present there and their freedmen, pledged allegiance to Marwan bin al-Hakam in the middle of Dhu al-Qa'dah in the year 64 AH, and after him to Khalid bin Yazid bin Mu'awiyah. Then Marwan marched towards al-Dahhak bin Qays, and they met at Marj Rahit, where fighting continued for twenty days. Finally, in Dhu al-Hijjah in the year 64 AH, al-Dahhak bin Qays and his companions were defeated, and in that battle al-Dahhak bin Qays, along with many people of the tribe of Qays, was killed.

Muhammad bin Umar (al-Waqidi) states that the kunyah of al-Dahhak bin Qays al-Akbar was Abu Unays. When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away, al-Dahhak was a boy who had not yet reached puberty.

Muhammad bin Jarir states that al-Waqidi held that al-Dahhak bin Qays did not hear anything from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), while other hadith scholars say that he did hear from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). So we say, with the help of Allah, that the correct view is that of Abu Ja'far Muhammad bin Jarir (may Allah have mercy on him), because reports from him from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) are authentically established in which his hearing is mentioned.

Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah bin Abi Sufyan (may Allah be pleased with them both) states: Al-Dahhak bin Qays narrated to me, and he is a trustworthy and approved person, that he heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "There will always be a ruler from Quraysh."

It is narrated from al-Hasan al-Basri that al-Dahhak bin Qays wrote to Qays bin al-Haytham at the time of the death of Yazid bin Mu'awiyah: Peace be upon you. To proceed: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Before the Hour there will be trials like pieces of smoke, in which a man's heart will die just as his body dies. In that time a man will be a believer in the morning and a disbeliever in the evening, and a believer in the evening and a disbeliever in the morning. People will sell their religion for a small gain of this world." And now Yazid has died, while you are our brothers and our own kin.

Abu al-Ala bin Abdullah bin al-Shikhkhir states: I heard al-Dahhak bin Qays al-Fihri say: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "When a man comes to a people and they say to him 'Welcome', then he will be welcomed on the day he meets his Lord. And when a man comes to a people and they say to him 'May you have drought and hardship', then there will be drought and hardship for him on the Day of Resurrection."

Sayyiduna al-Dahhak bin Qays (may Allah be pleased with him) states that there was a woman in Madinah named Umm Atiyyah who used to circumcise women. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to her: "Cut slightly and do not cut deeply, for that is better for the radiance of the face and more pleasing to the husband."