Abu Sa'da · Islam Museum

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Era: The Rashidun Caliphate
Region: Levant & Iraq
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Overview

Abu Sa'da, a man of the Banu Abs in Kufa, mentioned in al-Baladhuri's "Futuh al-Buldan" in an account about Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas. ¹

The report

Al-Baladhuri relates that when people asked Abu Sa'da about Sa'd, he said that Sa'd did not divide equally nor judge justly. Sa'd prayed against him, if he was lying, that God would lengthen his life, keep him poor, blind him and expose him to trials. ¹

Then Abd al-Malik ibn Umayr is reported to have seen him in the streets approaching slave-women and saying: "A great one tested; the prayer of Sa'd has struck me." ¹

This is a report in al-Baladhuri, and the speaker of the claim against Sa'd is Abu Sa'da himself. It needs an additional source.