Al-Bara' ibn `Azib
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Al-Bara ibn Azib (Arabic: البراء بن عازب) was one of the companions of Muhammad and narrator of hadith.[1]
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[edit] Biography
He entered 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 17/690.
He reported the hadith of hadith of the pond of Khumm[3] and also figures in the transmission of numerous ḥadīth in the collections of Muslim and Bukhārī.
When Umar was at Fatimah's house,[4], al-Bara was in it.
He did not give allegiance to Abu Bakr, until Ali supposedly did so.[4][5]
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[edit] References
- ^ Hadith Books
- ^ see Hadith of prohibition of Mut'ah at Khaybar
- ^ shianews.com quoting Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal in his Musnad, al Matbaat al Maymaniyyah, Egypt, 1313, from al Bara' ibn Azib (iv, 281)
- ^ a b A Shi'i-Sunni dialogue on Al-Islam.org [1]
- ^ Tarikh al-Yaqubi, as quoted in Peshawar Nights on Al-islam.org [2]
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