At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Place in the story
- CompanionTradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Al-Miqdam ibn Ma'dikarib ibn Amr ibn Yazid, kunya Abu Karima — or Abu Yahya, it is said 1. He "kept the Prophet's company" and related hadiths from him, and related from Khalid ibn al-Walid, Mu'adh and Abu Ayyub; he settled in Homs 1.
His transmitters
From him relate his son Yahya, his grandson Salih ibn Yahya, Khalid ibn Ma'dan, Habib ibn Ubayd, Yahya ibn Jabir al-Ta'i, al-Sha'bi, Shurayh ibn Ubayd, Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Awf and others 1.
Did he see the Prophet?
Al-Baghawi records through Abu Yahya Sulaym al-Kila'i: we said to al-Miqdam, Abu Karima, the people claim you never saw the Prophet — he said: "yes by God, I saw him, and he took hold of my earlobe while I was walking with an uncle of mine" 2.
His death
Ibn Sa'd lists him in the fourth class of the people of Syria, saying he died in year eighty-seven at ninety-one years of age, and mentions other views on the year of his death 1.
Connections
- Mentioned in
- Arba'un 47 — no worse vessel than the belly
People and things also explored
Eating little· Arba'un 47 — no worse vessel than the belly· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity
Sources
- al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , p. 1458
- al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , p. 1459
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Miqdam ibn Ma'dikarib”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-miqdam-ibn-madikarib/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.