{
 "id": "group/ansar",
 "class": "group",
 "slug": "ansar",
 "label": {
  "en": "The Ansar",
  "ar": "الأنصار"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "'The Helpers' — the Muslims of Medina, of Aws and Khazraj, who invited the Prophet to their city, sheltered the refugees, and supplied the community's fighting strength.",
  "ar": "«الأنصار» — مسلمو المدينة من الأوس والخزرج الذين دعوا النبي إلى مدينتهم، وآووا المهاجرين، وكانوا عماد قوة الجماعة."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "hospitality",
  "converts-and-leavers",
  "battles"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 621.9996988302291,
  "latest": 622.9990348877484
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0622",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "The name belongs to the Medinan converts around the pledges of Aqaba and the Hijra.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "people",
  "made": {
   "by_muslims": true,
   "basis": "documented",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "founded": {
   "edtf": "0622",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "The name belongs to the Medinan converts around the pledges of Aqaba and the Hijra.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "host",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0622"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Received the Prophet by invitation after the pledges of Aqaba.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "protector",
    "toward": "group/muhajirun",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0622"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Sheltered the Meccan refugees; the Prophet paired them with the emigrants in the brotherhood pact.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "ally",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0622"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0632"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Supplied the bulk of the community's fighters at Badr, Uhud and after.",
    "sources": [
     "source/watt-1956-medina"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/watt-1956-medina"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "الأنصار — «الأنصار بمعنى الناصرين» — أوسُ يثرب وخزرجها الذين بايعوا النبي وآووه، فنقلت بيعتهم الإسلامَ من دعوة مستضعفة إلى دولة قائمة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "التاريخ",
     "markdown": "دخل أوس وخزرج في بيعة [[event/pledges-of-aqaba|العقبة]] بيعتين، قبلت فيهما يثرب استضافة النبي و[[group/muhajirun|المهاجرين]] وحمايتهم {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}. وبعد الهجرة صار الأنصار عماد النفوس: أصحاب السوق والبستان والسيف في بدر وأُحد والخندق وما بعدها {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n\nوفي [[event/saqifa|سقيفة]] بني ساعدة طُرحت ولاية الأمر، فتقرر الأمر لقريش بقيادة أبي بكر بتوافق الأنصار — الحدث الذي يراه السنة تسوية سريعة، وتراه أهل بيته وشيعتهم خيانة للخلافة العلوية الموعودة {cite:watt-1956-medina}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "الأنصار هم السند الدائم لأهل السنة — «ولا يحبهم إلا مؤمن» — وفي رواية الشيعة هم طرف النزاع الذي فاز؛ يتفق الجانبان على أنّ المدينة لم تكن لتكون إلا بهم {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/ansar",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 32,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
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   "to": "person/abu-ayyub-al-ansari",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/hubab-ibn-al-mundhir",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/kulthum-ibn-al-hidm",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/muadh-ibn-amr-ibn-al-jamuh",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/muadh-ibn-jabal",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/muawwidh-ibn-afra",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/nusayba-bint-kab",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/sad-ibn-muadh",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/sawad-ibn-ghaziyya",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/umayr-ibn-al-humam",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/zayd-ibn-thabit",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "place/medina",
   "type": "lived_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/muhajirun",
   "type": "allied_with",
   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0622"
   },
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "group/muhajirun",
   "type": "protected",
   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0622"
   },
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/pledges-of-aqaba",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "pledging-party",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/brotherhood-of-muhajirun-and-ansar",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/battle-of-badr",
  "place/medina",
  "event/hijra",
  "group/early-muslims",
  "person/muhammad",
  "event/pledges-of-aqaba",
  "person/nusayba-bint-kab",
  "person/muadh-ibn-jabal"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}