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 "id": "person/ubayy-ibn-kab",
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 "slug": "ubayy-ibn-kab",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أبي بن كعب",
  "en": "Ubayy ibn Ka'b"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "«سيد القراء» من الأنصار، من أصحاب العقبة الثانية وشهد بدراً والمشاهد كلها؛ قال له النبي إن الله أمره أن يقرأ عليه، وكان عمر يسميه سيد المسلمين؛ وفي تاريخ وفاته أقوال بين سنة 19هـ و32هـ يرجح ابن حجر وأبو نعيم أنها في خلافة عثمان.",
  "en": "The 'master of the reciters' among the Ansar, present at the second pledge of al-Aqaba, at Badr and in all the campaigns; the Prophet told him that God had commanded him to recite to him, and Umar called him the master of the Muslims; the date of his death is given from 19 AH to 32 AH, and Abu Nu'aym favours the caliphate of Uthman."
 },
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 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "scripture-and-its-sciences"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أبي بن كعب بن قيس بن عبيد بن زيد بن معاوية بن عمرو بن مالك بن النجار الأنصاري"
   },
   {
    "kind": "kunya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أبو المنذر وأبو الطفيل"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "مذكور في الإصابة ترجمة رقم 47 (ص 26).",
    "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 47، ص 26",
   "generated_by": "Claude (maintainer session)",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "isaba-batch-6"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; read from al-Isaba (column-aware OCR, page 26, entry 47)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "[[person/ubayy-ibn-kab|أبي بن كعب]] بن قيس من بني النجار الأنصاري، يكنى أبا المنذر وأبا الطفيل، ويصفه ابن حجر بأنه «سيد القراء» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.26}. كان من أصحاب [[event/pledges-of-aqaba|العقبة]] الثانية، وشهد [[event/battle-of-badr|بدراً]] والمشاهد كلها {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.26}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "مكانته عند النبي وعمر",
     "markdown": "يروي ابن حجر أن النبي قال له: «ليهنك العلم أبا المنذر»، وقال له: «إن الله أمرني أن أقرأ عليك» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.26}. وكان [[person/umar-ibn-al-khattab|عمر]] يسميه «سيد المسلمين» ويقول له: «اقرأ يا أبيّ»، وكان يسأله عن النوازل ويحتكم إليه في المعضلات {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.26}. وعدّه مسروق في الستة من أصحاب الفتيا {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.26}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الكتابة والصفة",
     "markdown": "قال الواقدي: هو أول من كتب للنبي، وأول من كتب في آخر الكتاب «وكتب فلان ابن فلان»، وكان ربعة أبيض اللحية لا يغير شيبه {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.26}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرواة عنه",
     "markdown": "روى عنه من الصحابة عمر وأبو أيوب وعبادة بن الصامت وسهل بن سعد وأبو موسى وابن عباس وأبو هريرة وأنس وسليمان بن صرد وغيرهم، وأخرج الأئمة أحاديثه في صحاحهم {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.26}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "مرضه",
     "markdown": "روى أحمد وأبو يعلى وابن أبي الدنيا، وصححه ابن حبان، عن أبي سعيد الخدري أن النبي سُئل عن الأمراض فقال: «كفارات»، فقال أبي: يا رسول الله وإن قلّت؟ قال: «وإن شوكة فما فوقها»، فدعا أبيّ ألا يفارقه الوعك حتى يموت وألا يمنعه من حج ولا عمرة ولا جهاد ولا صلاة مكتوبة في جماعة {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.27}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته: اختلاف الأقوال",
     "markdown": "ينقل ابن حجر عن ابن معين أنه مات سنة عشرين أو تسع عشرة، وعن الواقدي أن آل أبي وأصحابه يقولون سنة اثنتين وعشرين وأن عمر قال: «اليوم مات سيد المسلمين»، ثم يذكر الواقدي من يقول إنه مات في خلافة عثمان سنة ثلاثين ويقول إنه «أثبت الأقاويل» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.26}. وقال ابن عبد البر إن الأكثر على أنه مات في خلافة عمر، وصحح أبو نعيم أنه مات في خلافة عثمان سنة ثلاثين واحتج بلقاء زر بن حبيش له في خلافة عثمان، وقال ابن حبان سنة اثنتين وعشرين، وروى البغوي عن الحسن أنه مات قبل مقتل عثمان بجمعة {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.26} {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.27}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ubayy-ibn-kab",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "[[person/ubayy-ibn-kab|Ubayy ibn Ka'b]] ibn Qays of Banu al-Najjar al-Ansari, kunya Abu al-Mundhir and Abu al-Tufayl; Ibn Hajar calls him \"master of the reciters\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 26}. He was of the people of the [[event/pledges-of-aqaba|second Aqaba]], and witnessed [[event/battle-of-badr|Badr]] and all the campaigns {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 26}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His standing with the Prophet and Umar",
     "markdown": "Ibn Hajar relates that the Prophet said to him: \"may knowledge be sweet to you, Abu al-Mundhir\", and told him: \"God has commanded me to recite to you\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 26}. [[person/umar-ibn-al-khattab|Umar]] used to call him \"master of the Muslims\" and say to him: \"recite, Ubayy\"; he asked him about cases and turned to him on hard questions {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 26}. Masruq counted him among the six men of fatwa {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 26}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Writing and appearance",
     "markdown": "Al-Waqidi said he was the first to write for the Prophet and the first to write at a document's end \"wrote So-and-so son of So-and-so\"; he was of medium height, white-bearded, his greyness unhidden {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 26}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Those who related from him",
     "markdown": "Of the Companions, Umar, Abu Ayyub, Ubada ibn al-Samit, Sahl ibn Sa'd, Abu Musa, Ibn Abbas, Abu Hurayra, Anas, Sulayman ibn Surad and others related from him, and the imams brought his hadiths in their Sahihs {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 26}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His illness",
     "markdown": "Ahmad, Abu Ya'la and Ibn Abi al-Dunya relate — Ibn Hibban authenticated it — from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri that the Prophet was asked about illnesses and said: \"expiations\" — Ubayy said: Messenger of God, even when little? He said: \"even a thorn and what is above it\" — so Ubayy prayed never to be free of fever until he died, so long as it did not bar him from hajj, 'umra, jihad or the congregational prayer {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 27}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His death: the differing sayings",
     "markdown": "Ibn Hajar transmits from Ibn Ma'in that he died in year twenty or nineteen, and from al-Waqidi that Ubayy's family and companions say year twenty-two, and that Umar said: \"today the master of the Muslims died\" — then al-Waqidi mentions those who say he died in Uthman's caliphate in year thirty and calls it \"the firmest of the sayings\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 26}. Ibn Abd al-Barr said the majority hold he died in Umar's caliphate; Abu Nu'aym authenticated that he died in Uthman's caliphate in year thirty, arguing from Zar ibn Hubaysh's meeting him in Uthman's caliphate; Ibn Hibban said year twenty-two; al-Baghawi relates from al-Hasan that he died a week before Uthman's killing {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 26} {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 27}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ubayy-ibn-kab",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  "person/muhammad",
  "place/medina",
  "group/early-muslims",
  "person/abd-allah-ibn-jubayr",
  "person/abu-dujana",
  "person/muadh-ibn-jabal",
  "person/muhammad-ibn-maslama"
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