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 the death of Ḳais took place five days before the expiration of the Prophet, who on his death-bed said: "Allah has brought about the death of al-Aswad al-ʿAnsi through the righteous man Fairûz ibn-ad-Dailami," and that the news of the conquest came to abu-Bakr ten days after he had been proclaimed caliph.

Bakr ibn-al-Haitham from an-Nuʿmân ibn-Burzuj, one of al-Abnâʾ:—The Prophet's ʿâmil, whom al-Aswad drove out of Ṣanʿâʾ, was Abân ibn-Saʿîd ibn-al-ʿÂṣi; and the one who killed al-Aswad was Fairûz ibn-ad-Dailami. When both Ḳais and Fairûz at al-Madînah claimed having killed him, ʿUmar pointed to Fairuz saying, "It was this lion who killed him!"

. Ḳais was charged with having killed Dâdhawaih, and abu-Bakr received the information that he was intent on expelling al-Abnâʾ from Ṣanʿâʾ. Abu-Bakr's anger was thereby aroused, and he wrote to al-Muhâjir ibn-abi-Umaiyah at his entry to Ṣanʿâʾ as abu-Bakr's ʿâmil, instructing him to bring Ḳais before him. When Ḳais was brought before abu-Bakr, he was requested by him to swear fifty oaths near the Prophet's pulpit that he did not kill Dâdhawaih. This he did, and was consequently set free by abu-Bakr, who directed him to Syria with those of the Moslems summoned for the invasion of the Greeks.