Al-Bara' ibn `Azib

Al-Bara ibn Azib (Arabic: البراء بن عازب‎) 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

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 quoting Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal in his Musnad, al Matbaat al Maymaniyyah, Egypt, 1313, from al Bara' ibn Azib (iv, 281)
5. A Shi'i-Sunni dialogue on Al-Islam.org

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