'''Hani' b. Qabīṣah b. Hani' b. Mas'ud''' also known as '''Hānīʾ b. Qabīṣa''' is the name given in sources quoted by [[Abu Ubaidah (scholar)]] (and confirmed as correct according to [[Al-Tabari]]) to the person with whom [[Al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir]] deposited his coat of mail, his valuables, and other arms when Al-Nu`man had become fearful of [[Khosrow II]]. The lowest estimate of these mailed coats of armour was four hundred, and the highest was eight hundred.<ref>https://static4.emaanlibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Extracted-pages-from-Tabari_Volume_05b.pdf?x60328 p.358-359</ref> Al-Nu'man's fate was the cause of the [[Battle of Dhi Qar]] where Hani b. Qabīṣah led the Šaybānī [[Banu Bakr|Bakri]] b. Wāʾel Wāʾil to triumph.<ref>https://iranicaonline.org/articles/du-qar</ref>.
According to Al-Tabari's source, when al-Nu'man killed 'Adi, 'Adi's brother and son hatched a plot against al-Nu'man at Khosrow II's court, and falsified a letter sent by al-Nu'man to Khosrow II exculpating himself with expressions that roused Khosrow II's anger. Hence Khosrow II ordered al-Nu`man to be killed. Therefore al-Nu`man, fearing for his life, deposited his coat of mail, his valuables, and other arms with a certain Hani' because al-Nu`man had given Hani' two of his daughters in marriage. Tabari says that a number of the learned scholars of the Arabs whom Abu 'Ubaydah expressly named, said this was Hani b. Masud b. 'Amir al-Khasib b. 'Amr al-Muzdalif b. AbI Rabi'ah b. Dhuhl b. Šaybān b. Tha'labah. However, Al-Tabari tells us that other scholars mentioned by Abu Ubaidah stated that Hani' b. Masud was not alive when these events transpired and that the person in question was Hani' b. Qabīṣah b. Hani' b. Masud. Al-Tabari confirms that it is the latter opinion concerning Hani b. Qabīṣah as the inheritor of Al-Numan's possessions that he considers to be historically correct.
Iyas sent a message to Hani' telling him to hand over the coats of mail and other items that al-Nu'man entrusted Hani'. But Hānīʾ b. Qabīṣah, refused to hand over to him al-Nuʿmān’s family and armour which he had engaged to protect.
When Hani' withheld these, Khosrow II was filled with anger and declared that he would extirpate the Bakr b. WāʾelWāʾil. Subsequently Ḵhosrow II sent armed forces against the Šaybānī leader but these forces were defeated at Ḏhi Qār.
According to Fred Donner, there are thus two sects of Šaybāni, one were on the Muslim side against Persia and one on the Persian side.<ref>https://iranicaonline.org/articles/du-qar</ref> According to Al-Baladhuri's Futuh, both Hani' b. Qabīṣah and either Iyas or the son of Iyas surrendered Al-Nu'man's former territories to [[Khalid b. al-Walid]]'s forces in 633CE agreeing to serve him as spies.<ref>https://static4.emaanlibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Extracted-pages-from-Tabari_Volume_05b.pdf?x60328 p.359, ft857</ref>
