{
 "id": "person/abu-bakra-al-thaqafi",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "abu-bakra-al-thaqafi",
 "label": {
  "en": "Abu Bakra Nufay' ibn al-Harith",
  "ar": "أبو بكرة نفيع بن الحارث الثقفي"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A slave of Thaqif who descended from the besieged fortress of Ta'if on a pulley (bakra) in response to the Prophet's proclamation of freedom; the Prophet manumitted him as a 'freeman of God', and he became a prominent Companion and hadith transmitter in Basra.",
  "ar": "كان مولى لثقيف في حصن الطائف؛ فلما أعلن النبي أن من تدلى من الحصن فهو حر تدلى ببكرة فعُرف بها، فأعتقه النبي وسماه من عتقاء الله، وصار صحابياً وفقيهاً ومحدثاً نزل البصرة."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia",
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "slavery-and-freedom",
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "نفيع بن الحارث بن كلدة الثقفي"
   },
   {
    "kind": "kunya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أبو بكرة"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion",
   "scholar"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "تدلى ببكرة من حصن الطائف مستجيباً لنداء الأمان فأعتقه النبي (ابن هشام 4/128).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630-01"
    },
    "note": "أسلم في حصار الطائف."
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 p. 128",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-2b"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 p. 128"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "صحابي جليل وفقيه ومحدث؛ كان مولى لثقيف في حصن الطائف، فلما أعلن النبي الأمان والحرية لمن ينزل من الحصن تدلى ببكرة فعُرف بها، فأعتقه النبي وسماه من «عتقاء الله» {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/128}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "نزوله من الحصن",
     "markdown": "في أثناء [[event/siege-of-taif|حصار الطائف]] استجاب أبو بكرة لنداء النبي فنزل من أعلى سور الحصن مستعيناً ببكرة حبل، فلقبه النبي «أبا بكرة» وأعتقه، ورفض النبي رده إلى ثقيف بعد إسلامهم {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/128}. وصار بعد ذلك من كبار رواة الحديث ونزل البصرة {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/128}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "كان رجلاً مقيداً بالعبودية داخل حصن الطائف، فتدلى بحبل وبكرة لينال حريته عند النبي، فأعتقه وصار صحابياً عالماً ورواياً للحديث الشريف."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/abu-bakra-al-thaqafi",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "A notable Companion, jurist and hadith scholar; he had been a slave of Thaqif in al-Ta'if's fortress, and when the Prophet proclaimed safety and freedom to whoever came down from the fortress, he lowered himself on a pulley-wheel — by which he became known — and the Prophet freed him, naming him among \"God's freed\" {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/128}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Coming down from the fortress",
     "markdown": "During the [[event/siege-of-taif|siege of al-Ta'if]], Abu Bakra answered the Prophet's call and came down from atop the fortress wall using a rope's pulley; the Prophet nicknamed him \"Abu Bakra\" (father of the pulley) and freed him, refusing to return him to Thaqif after their Islam {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/128}. He afterwards became one of the great hadith transmitters and settled in Basra {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/128}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "He was a man held in slavery inside al-Ta'if's fortress; he lowered himself by rope and pulley to win his freedom with the Prophet, who freed him — and he became a learned Companion and transmitter of the noble hadith."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/abu-bakra-al-thaqafi",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "group/thaqif",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "event/siege-of-taif",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "freed-slave-convert",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/delegation-of-thaqif",
  "event/battle-of-hunayn",
  "group/thaqif",
  "place/taif",
  "event/siege-of-taif",
  "concept/emancipation-of-enemy-slaves",
  "group/early-muslims",
  "group/hawazin"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}