Safwan ibn al-Mu'attal

صفوان بن المعطل

Medina

A righteous Companion and veteran warrior from Banu Sulaym assigned to travel behind the army to collect dropped luggage; when he found Aisha left behind at al-Muraysi', he recognized her, lowered his camel without uttering a word beyond 'Inna lillahi wa-inna ilayhi raji'un', and safely escorted her to Medina; he was martyred during the Armenian conquests.

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Roles
Companion · Commander
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Arabia · Levant & Iraq
Identifiers
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In space

Medina

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

Converts and those who leaveBattles

Place in the story

  • Companion · c. 624 CE · c. 2 AH†Tradition
  • Martyr (as regarded) · c. 638 CE · c. 17 AH†Tradition

Sunni (transmitted)

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Connections

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Born in
Medina
Member of
The Ansar
Participated in
The Incident of the Slander (Hadith al-Ifk)· The Conquest of Harran· The Conquest of the Jazira· The Taking of Hisn Kamkh· The Conquest of Shimshat

People and things also explored

Hassan ibn Thabit· The Conquest of the Jazira· Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Haram· Abdullah ibn Atik· Asim ibn Thabit· Bishr ibn al-Bara'· Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman· Sa'd ibn Zayd al-Ashhali

Sources

  • al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
  • Sahih al-Bukhari
  • al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
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Hassan ibn Thabit

The renowned 'Poet of the Prophet'; an Ansari chief of Banu al-Najjar who defended Islam and the Prophet with his eloquent poetry, endorsed by the Prophet with the supplication 'O God, support him with the Holy Spirit'; lived to over a hundred years.