شرحبيل بن سعد

Depth

At a glance

Roles: Scholar
Era: The Umayyad Period
Region: Arabia

Life in time

The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Ala al-Sadafi · Abd al-Malik ibn Umayr · Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad ibn An'am · Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man ibn Thabit · Al-A'mash, Sulayman ibn Mihran

Overview

Shurahbil ibn Sa'd, a client of the Ansar in Medina. Ahmad Amin counts him among the first pillars of writing the campaigns (maghazi), together with Aban ibn Uthman, Urwa ibn al-Zubayr and Wahb ibn Munabbih ². Abd Allah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Hazm reported from him in the biography ³.

Death

He died in the year 123 AH, according to Duha al-Islam ³.

In al-Umari's al-Sira al-Nabawiyya al-Sahiha

Akram Diya' al-Umari says Shurahbil ibn Sa'd al-Madani (d. 123 AH) was "truthful, but his memory became confused in old age", dying at nearly a hundred; that Ibn Khuzayma and Ibn Hibban included his hadith in their Sahihs; and he quotes Ibn Uyayna: no one knew the campaigns and the men of Badr better than he. ⁴

Sources

Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012) , p. 639-642
Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012) , p.639-642
Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012) , p.639
al-Sira al-Nabawiyya al-Sahiha: An Attempt to Apply the Hadith Scholars' Rules to the Criticism of the Sira Reports — Akram Diya' al-Umari (Maktabat al-Ulum wa-al-Hikam, Medina, 6th ed. 1415/1994) , p.55

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