Al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib al-Anṣārī ( ar, البراء بن عازب الأنصاري; died 690) was one of the
companions of
Muhammad and
narrator of hadith
Biographical evaluation ( ar, عِلْمُ الرِّجال, ʿilm al-rijāl; literally meaning'' 'Knowledge of Men' , ''but more commonly understood as the ''Science of Narrators)'' refers to a discipline of Islamic religious studies within h ...
.
Biography
He converted to Islam at a young age and fought beside Muhammad in fifteen battles, including the
Battle of Khaybar
The Battle of Khaybar ( ar, غَزْوَة خَيْبَر, label=Classical Arabic, Arabic) was fought in 628 Common Era, CE between the early Muslims led by Muhammad and Jews living in Khaybar, an oasis located 150 km from Medina in the n ...
, from which he reported hadith
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.
Significant events
*He reported the hadith of
hadith of the pond of Khummshianews.com
quoting Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Ahmad ibn Hanbal al-Dhuhli ( ar, أَحْمَد بْن حَنْبَل الذهلي, translit=Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal al-Dhuhlī; November 780 – 2 August 855 CE/164–241 AH), was a Muslim jurist, theologian, ascetic, hadith traditionist, and f ...
in his Musnad, al Matbaat al Maymaniyyah, Egypt, 1313, from al Bara' ibn Azib (iv, 281) and also figures in the transmission of numerous ḥadīth in the collections of Muslim and Bukhārī.
*When Umar was at Fatimah's house,[ A Shi'i-Sunni dialogue on Al-Islam.or]
al-Bara was in it.
References
690 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Sahabah hadith narrators
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