At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Arabia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
- CompanionTradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Uthman ibn Hunayf al-Ansari; for his lineage Ibn Hajar refers to his brother Sahl's entry 1. Al-Tirmidhi alone said he witnessed Badr; the majority said his first battle was Uhud 1.
Measuring the land
The governorship of Basra
Ali had appointed him over Basra before he came to it; Talha and al-Zubayr overpowered him there — "and there was the famous affair of the battle of the Camel", as Ibn Hajar says 2. His nephew Abu Umama ibn Sahl and a number related from him; they said he settled at Kufa and died in Mu'awiya's caliphate 2.
Connections
- Member of
- The Ansar
- Lived in
- Kufa
- Participated in
- ʿAli's dispatch of his own governors to the garrison towns (36 AH)· Umar's Endowment of the Sawad upon Its People· Uthman ibn Hunayf's Survey of the Sawad
- Mentioned in
- Muwatta 2772
People and things also explored
Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman· Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas· Abdullah ibn Mas'ud· Abu Talha al-Ansari· al-Bara' ibn Azib· Ali ibn Abi Talib· Sahl ibn Hunayf· Umar ibn al-Khattab
Sources
- al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , p. 1005
- al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , p. 1006
- Asma al-Matalib fi Sirat Ali ibn Abi Talib, vol. 1 — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Uthman ibn Hunayf”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/uthman-ibn-hunayf/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.