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Jubayr ibn Nufayr

جبير بن نفير

Jubayr ibn Nufayr al-Hadrami, Abu Abd al-Rahman, a Successor who lived in the time of the Prophet ﷺ without meeting him. He related from Abu Bakr, Umar ibn al-Khattab (may God be pleased with him), al-Miqdad ibn al-Aswad, Ubada ibn al-Samit (may God be pleased with him) and Uqba ibn Amir, among others, and his son Abd al-Rahman, Makhul and Khalid ibn Ma'dan related from him. The book counts him among the senior Successors of Syria, notes that his father was a Companion, and records Abu Hatim and Abu Zur'a as calling him trustworthy. It gives his death as 75 AH, or 80 AH according to another report. 1

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Era
The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Summary

Jubayr ibn Nufayr al-Hadrami, Abu Abd al-Rahman, a Successor who lived in the time of the Prophet without meeting him. He related from Abu Bakr, Umar ibn al-Khattab, al-Miqdad ibn al-Aswad, Ubada ibn al-Samit and Uqba ibn Amir, among others, and his son Abd al-Rahman, Makhul and Khalid ibn Ma'dan related from him. The book counts him among the senior Successors of Syria, notes that his father was a Companion, and records Abu Hatim and Abu Zur'a as calling him trustworthy. It gives his death as 75 AH, or 80 AH according to another report. 1

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.6800
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The seven ahruf

The Prophet's saying 'the Qur'an was revealed in seven ahruf, so read of it what is easy' — narrated through Umar's dispute with Hisham ibn Hakim over Surat al-Furqan; its exact meaning is one of the widest debates in Qur'anic sciences.