Jabir ibn Abdullah

Jabir ibn Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Haram al-Ansari al-Sulami, kunya Abu Abdullah — also said Abu Abd al-Rahman, also said Abu Muhammad; one of the prolific narrators from the Prophet ¹. His father is Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Haram; both he and his father had companionship ¹.

In the Sahih he was among those who witnessed Aqaba ¹; his name recurs in the pledges of Aqaba. Bukhari in his Tarikh relates with a sound chain from Jabir: "I used to pour water for my companions on the day of Badr" — al-Waqidi denied this account from Jabir ¹.

Jabir says the Messenger of God campaigned twenty-one expeditions himself, of which he witnessed nineteen ¹. In Muslim: "I witnessed neither Badr nor Uhud — my father forbade me; when he was killed I never stayed behind again" ¹. And from him: "the Messenger of God asked forgiveness for me twenty-five times on the night of the Camel" ¹.

In Waki's Musannaf from Hisham ibn Urwa: Jabir ibn Abdullah (may God be pleased with him) had a circle in the Mosque — meaning the Prophet's — from whom knowledge was taken ¹.

Asim ibn Umar ibn Qatada relates that Jabir came to them after his sight had gone ¹. Some say he was the last Companion to die in Medina, but al-Baghawi says that is an error and the last was Sahl ibn Sa'd ¹. Yahya ibn Bukayr said he died in year seventy-eight; Ibn Hajar says al-Haytham ibn Adi's view — that he died in year seventy-four — agrees with al-Tabari and Bukhari's Tarikh, which have al-Hajjaj present at his funeral; it is also said year seventy-three, and it is said he lived ninety-four years ¹.