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Irbad ibn Sariya al-Fazari

عرباض بن سارية الفزاري

The seventh of the Weepers, of Fazara; Ibn Ishaq lists him among those who begged the Prophet ﷺ for mounts on the Tabuk campaign when he found nothing to carry them on.

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Roles
Companion
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia
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Place in the story

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Sunni (transmitted)

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Summary

The seventh of the Weepers, of Fazara; Ibn Ishaq names him among those who asked the Prophet for mounts on the Tabuk expedition when he found nothing to carry them on. 1

In the Tabuk expedition

Ibn Ishaq names him seventh of the Weepers, of Fazara, among the seven men who came asking the Prophet for mounts — he said he found nothing to carry them on, and they turned back with eyes overflowing with tears. 1

Tribe

Ibn Ishaq gives his lineage: of Fazara. 1

Source notes and markers of doubt

  • The editors note a disagreement on some of the Weepers' names (note p. 161).

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Participated in
The Weepers: seven who asked to be carried
Mentioned in
Arba'un 28 — fear of God and beware of novelties

People and things also explored

Bid'a (religious innovation)· Taqwa (God-consciousness)· The expedition to Tabuk· Abdullah ibn al-Mughaffal al-Muzani· Abu Layla Abd al-Rahman ibn Ka'b· Amr ibn Humam ibn al-Jamuh· Harami ibn Abdullah· Muhammad

Sources

  1. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/161
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People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story. Related

Bid'a (religious innovation)

Introducing into religion what the Lawgiver's command did not bring; Ibn Rajab makes Aisha's hadith 'whoever introduces into this matter of ours what is not of it has it rejected' the scale of deeds in their outward form, as the hadith of intentions is their scale inwardly: every act not upon the command of God and His Messenger is thrown back at its doer, and whoever introduces into religion what God and His Messenger did not permit is no part of the religion; he pairs it with al-Irbad ibn Sariya's hadith 'beware of newly introduced matters, for every innovation is an error', deferring the detailed discussion of innovations to his commentary on it (hadith 28); in that commentary he reads 'beware of novelties, for every innovation is error' as a warning to the community against following invented matters, emphasised by the universal 'every innovation is error', and defines the intended innovation as what is introduced with no foundation in the Law to indicate it — whatever does have a legal basis is no innovation in the legal sense though it may be one linguistically; he couples it with Jabir's sermon report in Sahih Muslim 'the worst of matters are their novelties and every innovation is error', with his account of the Rightly Guided as those who know the truth and follow it — unlike the ghawi who knows and does not follow and the dall who does not know at all — and with his reading of 'you will see much disagreement' as foretelling the community's divergence in roots and branches (Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam pp. 581–601).