Al-Bara' ibn Azib

Al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib al-Anṣārī (Arabic: البراء بن عازب الأنصاري) was one of the companions of Muhammad and narrator of hadith.^[1]

Biography[]

He converted to Islam at a young age and fought beside the Prophet in fifteen battles, including the Battle of Khaybar, from which he reported hadith ^[2] In the year 24/645, during the caliphate of ‘Uthmān, he was made governor of al-Ray (in Persia). He eventually retired to Kūfā and there he died in the year 71/690.^[3]

Significant events[]

He reported the hadith of hadith of the pond of Khumm^[4] and also figures in the transmission of numerous ḥadīth in the collections of Muslim and Bukhārī.
When Umar was at Fatimah's house,^[5] al-Bara was in it.

References[]

^ Hadith Books
^ see Hadith of prohibition of Mut'ah at Khaybar
^ Khatib Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, vol.1, pg.177
^ shianews.com Archived 2007-07-08 at the Wayback Machine quoting Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal in his Musnad, al Matbaat al Maymaniyyah, Egypt, 1313, from al Bara' ibn Azib (iv, 281)
^ A Shi'i-Sunni dialogue on Al-Islam.org [1] Archived 2011-06-10 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] Hadith Books

[2] see Hadith of prohibition of Mut'ah at Khaybar

[3] Khatib Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, vol.1, pg.177

[4] shianews.com Archived 2007-07-08 at the Wayback Machine quoting Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal in his Musnad, al Matbaat al Maymaniyyah, Egypt, 1313, from al Bara' ibn Azib (iv, 281)

[dialogue-5] A Shi'i-Sunni dialogue on Al-Islam.org [1] Archived 2011-06-10 at the Wayback Machine

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