Abu Dharr al-Ghifari (may God be pleased with him) was a desert man of Banu Ghifar who walked to Mecca and became one of the first Muslims about 614 CE, then called his own people. He believed that whoever grows rich while people are poor is wrong, and he kept saying it to the most powerful men of his age — even at the cost of his home: Uthman exiled him to al-Rabadha, where he died in 652 CE.
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Abu Dharr al-Ghifari
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Abu Dharr al-Ghifari (may God be pleased with him) was a desert man of Banu Ghifar who walked to Mecca and became one of the first Muslims about 614 CE — he came asking about the Prophet ﷺ, entered Islam after it was presented to him, then proclaimed his testimony in the mosque and was hurt until al-Abbas rescued him — and he called his people, then lived as an ascetic in Medina and later Damascus. There the sources preserve his public rebuke of the officials for amassing gold and silver, citing the Book on hoarded treasure; sent back to Medina he did not stop, so Uthman exiled him to al-Rabadha where he died in 652 CE. Later generations — Sufis, social critics, writers on Islamic economics — all return to Abu Dharr: the man who asked from the start what the community owes its poor.
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