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مجاهد بن جبر

مجاهد بن جبر

In al-Baladhuri: resided at Rhodes teaching the people Qur'an — Mu'awiya rotating the settlers there — and was among Arwad's openers, where he taught Tubay' ibn imra'at Ka'b al-Ahbar the Qur'an, though it is said he taught it to him at Rhodes.

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Mujahid ibn Jabr, client of Qays ibn al-Sa'ib al-Makhzumi, known by the kunya Abu al-Hajjaj. Al-Mas'udi says he died in 103 AH at the age of eighty-four. 1

In Rhodes and Arwad

Al-Baladhuri says that he lived in Rhodes teaching people the Qur'an, and that Mu'awiya used to alternate governors among the people there. He was among those who conquered Arwad, and there he taught the Qur'an to Tubay', son of the wife of Ka'b al-Ahbar; it is said that he taught him in Rhodes. 2 He took part in the conquest of Rhodes and the conquest of Arwad.

With Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz

The book says that he came before Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik and then before Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, and witnessed his death. Umar told him in his illness that he had been given poison to drink, and ordered that the dinars that had been paid as the price of the poison be returned to the treasury. 3

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Participated in
The Conquest of Rhodes and the Demolition of Its Fort· The Conquest of Arwad
Mentioned in
Muwatta 1846· Muwatta 1987· Muwatta 844· Muwatta 1250· Muwatta 1251

People and things also explored

Expiation (kaffara)· Muwatta, Book of Pilgrimage (hajj)· Muwatta, Book of Sales (buyu')· Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla· Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab· جنادة بن أبي أمية الأزدي· Ka'b ibn Ujra· Malik ibn Anas

Sources

  1. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 191
  2. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
  3. The Umayyad State: Factors of Prosperity and Consequences of Collapse — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi (Part Two, 2005) , p.280
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Expiation (kaffara)

Kaffara means covering, from the root of concealing. In law it is an expiation owed for certain sins and violations; it has both a penal and a devotional character. One cause is breaking an oath: it is owed on breaking the oath, not on swearing it; the schools differ on the oath of deception and on the vain oath, on whether several oaths on one matter need several expiations, and on expiating before breaking the oath. Another cause is killing: all agree on the expiation for killing by mistake and near-intentional killing; the schools differ on intentional killing, on killing by causation and on a foetus. The article then covers breaking the fast of Ramadan and the rules on intercourse in it, the prohibitions of the hajj and ihram, the expiation for zihar, and the conditions and kinds of expiation.