Usayd ibn Hudayr

أسيد بن حضير

Medina

A prominent chief of the Banu Abd al-Ashhal clan of the Aws in Yathrib; when Mus'ab ibn Umayr came preaching, Usayd approached with his spear to rebuff him, but upon listening to the Qur'an embraced Islam with radiant conviction, leading to his cousin Sa'd ibn Mu'adh's conversion and the entire clan's Islam.

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Roles
Companion · Notable
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Arabia
Identifiers
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In space

Medina

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

Converts and those who leave

Place in the story

  • Convert to IslamtowardMuhammad · c. 621 CETradition
  • Companion · c. 621 CETradition

Sunni (transmitted)

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

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Born in
Medina
Member of
The Ansar· Banu Aws
Participated in
The Pledges of Aqaba· The Scribes of Aws and Khazraj and the Complete· The meeting at Saqifa· The second pledge of al-Aqaba
Mentioned in
Muwatta 134

People and things also explored

Sa'd ibn Ubada· Ubada ibn al-Samit· Muhammad· Medina· Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Haram· al-Abbas ibn Ubada· al-Bara ibn Ma'rur· As'ad ibn Zurara

Sources

  • al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
  • al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
  • Ibn Sa'd, Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir (Bewley translation, Ta-Ha)
  • Sahih al-Bukhari
  • al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
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Sa'd ibn Ubada

The chief of the Khazraj, present at al-Aqaba and one of the twelve naqibs; whether he was at Badr is disputed; he and his father, grandfather and son were famed for generosity, he carried the banner of the Ansar, his holding back from the pledge to Abu Bakr is well known, and he died at Hawran in 15 or 16 AH.