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Rifa'a ibn Malik al-Zuraqi

رفاعة بن مالك الزرقي

Mecca

Rifa'a ibn Malik ibn al-Ajlan al-Ansari al-Zuraqi, Abu Mu'adh, a Companion who witnessed the second pledge at Aqaba and the later battles. He narrated from the Prophet ﷺ, from Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may God be pleased with him) and from Ubada ibn al-Samit (may God be pleased with him). 1 Ibn Hajar says his father was the first of the Ansar to embrace Islam, and Ibn Abd al-Barr says that Rifa'a fought with Ali at the battles of the Camel and Siffin. 1

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Companion
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia

Life in time

525550575600625650675700725 c. c. c.
Pre-Islamic Arabia · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib · Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla · Abd al-Rahman ibn Abra · Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Abbas al-Hashimi · Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Harith ibn Hisham

In space

Mecca

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Summary

Rifa'a ibn Malik ibn al-Ajlan al-Ansari al-Zuraqi, Abu Mu'adh, a Companion who witnessed the second pledge at Aqaba and the later battles. 1 He narrated from the Prophet, Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and Ubada ibn al-Samit. 1

What the scholars said of him

Ibn Hajar says his father was the first of the Ansar to embrace Islam, and Ibn Abd al-Barr says Rifa'a fought with Ali at the Camel and at Siffin. 1

Connections

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Member of
The Companions· The Ansar
Traveled to
Mecca

People and things also explored

Jabbar ibn Sakhr al-Ansari· The Pledge of the Tree (Bay'at al-Ridwan)· First encounter with the six Ansar at al-Aqaba· The Pledges of Aqaba· The Muhajirun· Abbad ibn Qays· al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib· Abbas ibn Mirdas al-Sulami

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.8514
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Jabbar ibn Sakhr al-Ansari

An Ansari whom the Prophet sent with Amr ibn Umayya al-Damri to Mecca to kill Abu Sufyan ibn Harb; it was he who proposed circling the Ka'ba and praying at night, and being no walker, Amr told him to flee to his camel when Quraysh pursued them.