Qais

Qais ibn Abi Hazim al-Bajali al-Ahmasi was a leading Tabi'i scholar of Kufa who lived through the era of the Prophet ﷺ but was too young to have been a companion. He migrated to Medina but arrived after the Prophet's death. Despite this, he narrated from an extraordinary range of senior companions — reportedly from Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan, Ali ibn Abi Talib, Talha, al-Zubayr, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, and many others — making him the Tabi'i who narrated from the greatest number of the ten promised Paradise. He is considered by hadith critics as fully reliable (thiqah) and one of the most important transmission links between the first generation and those that followed. His narrations appear extensively in all major collections. He passed away around 84–98 AH.