Al-Bara' ibn Azib
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Al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib al-Anṣārī (Arabic: البراء بن عازب الأنصاري; died 690) was one of the companions of Muhammad and narrator of hadith.[1]
Biography
[edit]He converted to Islam at a young age and fought beside Muhammad in fifteen battles, including the Battle of Khaybar, from which he reported hadith [2] In 645, during the caliphate of Uthman, he was made governor of al-Ray (in Persia). He eventually retired to Kūfā and there he died in 690.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Hadith Books
- ↑ see Hadith of prohibition of Mut'ah at Khaybar
- ↑ Khatib Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, vol.1, pg.177