{
 "id": "person/kab-ibn-ujra",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "kab-ibn-ujra",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كعب بن عجرة",
  "en": "Ka'b ibn Ujra"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "حليف الأنصار من بلي من قضاعة (وزعم الواقدي أنه أنصاري فردّه ابن سعد)؛ شهد عمرة الحديبية ونزلت فيه قصة الفدية لما مرّ به النبي وهو محرم والقمل يتساقط على وجهه فأمره بحلق رأسه وإطعام فرق بين ستة مساكين؛ سكن الكوفة ومات بالمدينة في سنة إحدى أو اثنتين أو ثلاث وخمسين.",
  "en": "An ally of the Ansar from Bali of Quda'a (al-Waqidi claimed he was an Ansari and Ibn Sa'd rejected it); he was on the umra of al-Hudaybiyya, and the ruling on redemption was revealed over him when the Prophet passed him in ihram with lice falling on his face and told him to shave his head and feed six poor people; he settled in Kufa and died in Medina in 51, 52 or 53 AH by different accounts."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun",
  "period/umayyad"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "scripture-and-its-sciences"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "كعب بن عجرة بن أمية بن عدي بن عبيد بن خالد بن عمرو بن عوف بن غنم بن سواد بن مري بن أراشة البلوي، حليف الأنصار"
   },
   {
    "kind": "kunya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أبو محمد"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "مذكور في الإصابة ترجمة رقم 7489 (ص 1279).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "note": "ذُكر في كتب الصحابة؛ يُسجَّل ضمن الإطار السني للمتحف (docs/scope.md)."
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الإصابة في تمييز الصحابة، ترجمة 7489، ص 1279",
   "generated_by": "Claude (maintainer session)",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "isaba-batch-7"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; read from al-Isaba (column-aware OCR, page 1279, entry 7489)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "[[person/kab-ibn-ujra|كعب بن عجرة]] البلوي القضاعي حليف الأنصار، يكنى أبا محمد، وقيل أبا إسحاق بابنه إسحاق، وقيل أبا عبد الله {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1279}. زعم الواقدي أنه أنصاري من أنفسهم، وردّه كاتبه محمد بن سعد بقوله: «طلبت نسبه في الأنصار فلم أجده»، وأطلق البخاري أنه أنصاري وقال: مدني له صحبة {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1279}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحديبية والفدية",
     "markdown": "روى عن النبي وعن عمر، وشهد عمرة [[event/treaty-of-hudaybiyya|الحديبية]]، «ونزلت فيه قصة الفدية» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1279}. وأخرجها الصحيحان من طرق، منها أن النبي مرّ به وهو محرم يوقد تحت قدر والقمل يتهافت على وجهه، فقال له: «احلق رأسك وأطعم فرقاً بين ستة مساكين» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1279}. وقال كعب في بعض الطرق: «فكانت لي خاصة وهي لكم عامة» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1279}. والآية هي [[passage/quran-2-196|البقرة 196]]."
    },
    {
     "heading": "اختلاف الروايات في الفدية",
     "markdown": "ينقل ابن حجر من غرائب طرق القصة ما أخرجه ابن المقري من طريق نافع عن رجل من الأنصار، وفيه أن النبي أمره أن يهدي بقرة، ويقابله ما أخرجه البغوي عن الحسن أن كعباً سُئل عن فديته فقال: شاة {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1279}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "أخبار أخرى",
     "markdown": "أخرج ابن سعد بسند جيد عن ثابت بن عبيد أن يد كعب قُطعت في بعض المغازي، ثم سكن [[place/kufa|الكوفة]] {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1279}. وروى عنه ابن عمر وجابر وابن عباس وطارق بن شهاب وزيد بن وهب وآخرون، وأولاده إسحاق ومحمد وعبد الملك والربيع {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1279}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "قيل مات بالمدينة سنة إحدى وخمسين، وقيل اثنتين، وقيل ثلاث وخمسين {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1279}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/kab-ibn-ujra",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "[[person/kab-ibn-ujra|Ka'b ibn Ujra]] al-Balawi al-Quda'i, an ally of the Ansar; his kunya Abu Muhammad — also said Abu Ishaq after his son Ishaq, also said Abu Abdullah {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1279}. Al-Waqidi claimed he was an Ansari of themselves; his scribe Muhammad ibn Sa'd refuted him, saying \"I sought his lineage among the Ansar and did not find it\"; Bukhari stated outright he was an Ansari and said: Medinan, with companionship {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1279}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Hudaybiyya and the fidyah",
     "markdown": "He related from the Prophet and from Umar, and witnessed the umra of [[event/treaty-of-hudaybiyya|Hudaybiyya]] — \"in him descended the story of the fidyah\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1279}. The two Sahihs narrate it by several routes, among them that the Prophet passed by him while he was in ihram, lighting a fire under a pot with lice falling onto his face, and told him: \"shave your head and feed a farq among six poor people\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1279}. Ka'b says in some routes: \"it came down for me in particular, and it is for you in general\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1279}. The verse is [[passage/quran-2-196|al-Baqara 196]]."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Variant accounts of the fidyah",
     "markdown": "Ibn Hajar conveys odd routes of the story: what Ibn al-Muqri narrated from Nafi' from a man of the Ansar, in which the Prophet ordered him to offer a cow — opposite what al-Baghawi narrated from al-Hasan: that Ka'b, asked about his fidyah, said a sheep {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1279}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Other reports",
     "markdown": "Ibn Sa'd narrated with a good chain from Thabit ibn Ubayd that Ka'b's hand was cut off in one of the campaigns, and afterwards he settled in [[place/kufa|Kufa]] {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1279}. Ibn Umar, Jabir, Ibn Abbas, Tariq ibn Shihab, Zayd ibn Wahb and others narrated from him; his sons are Ishaq, Muhammad, Abd al-Malik and al-Rabi' {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1279}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His death",
     "markdown": "It is said he died in Medina in year fifty-one, or fifty-two, or fifty-three {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1279}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/kab-ibn-ujra",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  "person/abdullah-ibn-masud",
  "building/great-mosque-of-kufa",
  "person/adi-ibn-hatim",
  "person/al-ashath-ibn-qays",
  "person/al-bara-ibn-azib",
  "person/al-walid-ibn-uqba",
  "person/dimam-ibn-thalaba",
  "person/furat-ibn-hayyan"
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