Suhayl ibn Bayda

Overview

Suhayl ibn Bayda, a Companion of Banu Abd al-Dar and brother of Sahl; Bayda was their mother. ¹

Badr

Ibn Ishaq records that he witnessed Badr. Al-Tabarani transmitted with a sound chain from Abu Ubayda from Abdallah ibn Mas'ud from his father: the Messenger of God ﷺ said on the day of Badr, "Let none of you slip away except by ransom or a stroke"; I said — except Suhayl ibn Bayda; he said — except Suhayl ibn Bayda, for he had heard him mention Islam. ¹

His death

Ibn Ishaq records that he died in year nine. ¹

Prophet's Mosque

The mosque the Prophet founded in Medina after the Hijra; his camel knelt at the spot and he said 'this is the lodging, God willing', and it was the date-drying yard (mirbad) of two orphans, Sahl and Suhayl ibn 'Amr, in the care of As'ad ibn Zurara — he refused it as a gift until he bought it, ten dinars paid by Abu Bakr in al-Waqidi's account. They built it of mudbrick on a stone foundation of about three cubits; its measure is reported as seventy by sixty cubits, or a hundred square, or less than a hundred; its qibla first faced Jerusalem, and when it was turned the rear door was sealed and its opposite opened; of its three doors Bab 'Atika — the Door of Mercy — and Bab Al 'Uthman are named; it stood unroofed until the heat drove them to shade it with palm trunks and fronds then clay, the Prophet saying 'no — a shelter like the shelter of Moses'.

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