Abū Maymūn Jābān al-Kurdī
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Risale Haber (in Turkish). Retrieved 2020-12-13. (, , ), also referred to as Jaban Sahabi (), was a reputed
companion of the Islamic prophet
Muhammad
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. Jābān was of
Kurdish
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*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish language
** Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)
**Central Kurdish (Sorani)
**Southern Kurdish
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**Southern ...
ethnicity.
[ ] Born in
Midyat
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In the modern era, the town is populated by Kurds, Mhallami Arabs and Assyrians. The old Estel neighborho ...
,
North Kurdistan.
Not much is known about his life. The early Islamic scholar
Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani
Abu Nuʿaym al-Isfahani (; full name: ''Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ahmad ibn Ishāq ibn Mūsā ibn Mahrān al-Mihrānī al-Asbahānī'' (or ''al-Asfahānī'') ''al-Ahwal al-Ash`arī al-Shāfi`ī'', died 1038 CE / AH 430) was a medieval Persian S ...
mentions Jaban in ''Ma`rifat al-Sahâba wa Fadâ'ilihim''. Jābān's status as a companion is also mentioned twice in
Ibn al-Athir's book ''
Usd al-ghabah fi marifat al-Saḥabah''. He was also known to have narrated 10 prophetic
ahadith
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, according to
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (; 18 February 1372 – 2 February 1449), or simply ibn Ḥajar, was a classic Islamic scholar "whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of hadith." He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, ...
in the book ''
Al-Isabah fi tamyiz al Sahabah''. The book ''
Takmilah al-Ikmal'' by
Ibn Nuqtah also mentions him.
See also
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List of non-Arab Sahabah
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References
Sources
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Sahabah hadith narrators
Non-Arab companions of the Prophet
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