At a glance
- Roles
- Companion · Notable
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 3/5 · Help complete it
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
- Convert to IslamtowardMuhammad · c. 620 CETradition
- Companion · c. 620 CETradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
His entry in al-Isaba
Ibn Hajar gives him a short entry in al-Isaba under number 163 as "Asad ibn Zurara", then notes that the correct form of his name is "As'ad ibn Zurara", as Abu Musa al-Madini had pointed out 1. The entry thus corrects the vocalisation of his name more than it reports his biography, which is preserved in the sira works as above.
For younger visitors
As'ad ibn Zurara was among the first people of Medina to accept Islam; he met the Prophet ﷺ at Mecca before the Hijra and pledged to him, then stood behind Mus'ab ibn Umayr when the Prophet sent him to Medina as a teacher 2.
Notes for researchers
- al-Isaba fi Tamyiz al-Sahaba, entry 163 (al-Maktaba al-Asriyya scan, p. 46); the entry is a name-vocalisation correction, not a full biography.
Connections
- Born in
- Medina
- Member of
- The Ansar· Banu Khazraj
- Participated in
- First encounter with the six Ansar at al-Aqaba· The first Friday prayer in Yathrib· The first pledge of al-Aqaba· The Hijra· The Pledges of Aqaba· The building of the Prophet's Mosque· Six men of Yathrib embrace Islam at Mina
- Mentioned in
- Muwatta 2719
People and things also explored
Muhammad· The Prophetic Era· Medina· Rafi' ibn Malik ibn al-Ajlan· Ubada ibn al-Samit· The Ansar· The Hijra· The Pledges of Aqaba
Sources
- al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , p.46
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
- Ibn Sa'd, Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir (Bewley translation, Ta-Ha)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “As'ad ibn Zurara”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/asad-ibn-zurara/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.