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Abu Dharr's banishment to al-Rabdha (30 AH)

إشخاص أبي ذر إلى الربذة

650 CE · 30 AH

al-Rabdha

Abu Dharr was carried from Syria to Medina without a saddle-seat, then banished by 'Uthman from Medina to al-Rabdha — the episode that made his name a byword for speaking truth to power 1.

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The Rashidun Caliphate

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In this year occurred what is recorded of Abu Dharr: Mu'awiya's dispatching him from Syria to Medina without a saddle-seat, and 'Uthman's banishing him from Medina to al-Rabdha in the manner related 1.

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Occurred at
al-Rabdha
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Abu Dharr al-Ghifari· Uthman ibn Affan

People and things also explored

The death of Abu Dharr at al-Rabadha· The First Raid on Cyprus· The Hijra· Abu Dharr lags behind and follows on foot· The three years of the secret call· Ali's stance during the siege of Uthman· Ali carries out the drinking penalty on al-Walid ibn Uqba· Ali refuses to lead prayer while the caliph is besieged

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  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 483
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The death of Abu Dharr at al-Rabadha

Ibn Ishaq relates, through Burayda ibn Sufyan al-Aslami from Muhammad ibn Ka'b al-Qurazi from Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, that when Uthman exiled Abu Dharr to al-Rabadha and his death came there, he had with him only his wife and his servant. He charged them to wash and shroud him and lay him on the road; Ibn Mas'ud passed in a party of Iraqis and helped bury him, and recalled what the Prophet had said to Abu Dharr on the march to Tabuk.