Rafi' ibn Malik ibn al-Ajlan

Rafi' ibn Malik ibn al-Ajlan al-Zuraqi al-Ansari, "who witnessed al-Aqaba and was one of the chiefs (nuqaba')" ¹. Sa'd ibn Abd al-Hamid ibn Ja'far said: he was the first of the Khazraj to become Muslim ¹.

Ibn Ishaq relates that he was the first to come to Medina with Surat Yusuf ¹. al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar, in his reports on Medina, relates that the mosque of Banu Zurayq was the first mosque in which the Qur'an was recited. When Rafi' met the Prophet ﷺ at al-Aqaba, he gave him what had been revealed in the preceding ten years. Rafi' then came to Medina with it, gathered his people and recited it to them, and the Prophet marvelled at the proper orientation of the mosque's qibla ¹.

al-Bukhari relates from Mu'adh ibn Rifa'a that his father Rifa'a was of the people of Badr and that Rafi' was of the people of al-Aqaba. Rafi' used to say to his son: "It does not please me that I witnessed Badr instead of al-Aqaba" ¹. Abu Nu'aym relates the same report, and Musa ibn Uqba joined it and named him among the people of Badr. From Ibn Ishaq it also comes through Yunus ibn Bukayr, not through Yazid al-Bakka'i ¹.

al-Hakim, in the Mustadrak, included in his entry the hadith of Mu'adh ibn Rifa'a from his grandfather Rafi'. Ibn Hajar said: "This is a mistake; it is from his father" ¹.