Ubay ibn Ka'b

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Name:	Ubay ibn Ka'b
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Death:	22 AH (642–643)[1]
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1st millennium AH

1st century AH: (622 – 719 CE) Ubay ibn Ka'b (? – 22) Umar (-40 – 23) Ibn Mas'ud (? – 32) Ka'ab al-Ahbar (? – 32) Wahb ibn Munabbih (? – 34) Ali (-23 – 40) Abdullah ibn Sailam (? – 43) Ahmad ibn Tawoos (? – 53?) Abu Hurairah (? – 57) Masruq ibn al-Ajda' (? – 62?) Alqama ibn Qays (? – 62?) Ibn Abbas (-3 – 68) Sulaym ibn Qays (? – 70) Ibn Umar (-8? – 74) Aswad ibn Yazid (? – 75) Ma'bad al-Juhani (? – 80) Sahl ibn Sa'd (? – 91) Urwah ibn Zubayr (? – 94) Said ibn Al-Musayyib (? – 94) Raja Ibn Haywah (? – ?) Ali ibn Abu Talha (? – ?) Uqbah ibn Amir (? – ?) 2nd century AH: (719 – 816 CE) 3rd century AH: (816 – 913 CE) 4th century AH: (913 – 1010 CE) 5th century AH: (1010 – 1107 CE) 6th century AH: (1107 – 1204 CE) 7th century AH: (1204 – 1301 CE) 8th century AH: (1301 – 1398 CE) 9th century AH: (1398 – 1495 CE) 10th century AH: (1495 – 1592 CE)

2nd millennium AH

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Ubayy ibn Kab (d. 649) also known as Abu Mundhir (the father of Mudhir), was a companion of Muhammad and a person of high esteem in the early Muslim community.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Views 3 Legacy 3.1 Sunni view 3.2 Shi'a view 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Biography

Ubayy was born in Medina (then known as Yathrib), into the tribe of the Banu Khazraj. He was one of the first to accept Islam and pledge allegiance to Muhammad at Aqabah before the migration to Medina, becoming one of the Ansar. He participated in the battle of Badr and other following engagements.

He acted as a scribe of Muhammad, writing letters for him. Ubayy was one of the few who put the Qur'anic suras into writing and had a Mushaf of his own ^[2]. Following Muhammad's death, he was one of the twenty five people who knew the Qur'an completely by heart.

He was part of the consultative group (mushawarah) to which the caliph Abu Bakr referred many problems. It included Umar, Uthman, Ali, Abd-al-Rahman ibn Awf, Muadh ibn Jabal, Ubayy ibn Kab and Zayd ibn Thabit.

Umar later consulted the same group when he was caliph. Specifically for fatwas (legal judgments) he referred to Uthman, Ubayy and Zayd ibn Thabit.

Ubayy died in the year 649 CE (29 AH during the caliphate of Uthman.

[edit] Views

Ibn Hazm, a 11th century Sunni Islamic scholar included him in a list of Sahaba who deemed Nikah Mut'ah (temporary marriage) to be legal ^[3].

[edit] Legacy

[edit] Sunni view

Sunnis include him in the Hadith of Learning Qur'an from four people, in which according to the hadith, Muhammad said: "Learn the Qur'an from four persons: Abd-Allah ibn Mas'ud, Salim Mawla Abu-Hudhayfah, Ubay ibn Kab and Muadh ibn Jabal."

[edit] Shi'a view

He is well regarded by Shi'as since he refused to give his oath of allegiance to Abu Bakr, unless Ali did so ^[4].

[edit] See also

• Ubay (name)
• Ka'b (name)

[edit] References

1. ^ [1][2]
2. ^ http://www.youngmuslims.ca/online_library/books/ulum_al_Quran/Ch2S3s2.htm
3. ^ Al-Muhalla In the 9th section of the chapter of Marriage Ibn Hazm gives a detailed account of Mut'ah and its regulations.
4. ^ Peshawar Nights on Al-Islam.org [3]