{
 "id": "person/uthman-ibn-hunayf",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "uthman-ibn-hunayf",
 "label": {
  "ar": "عثمان بن حنيف",
  "en": "Uthman ibn Hunayf"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أنصاري أخو سهل بن حنيف؛ قال الترمذي وحده إنه شهد بدراً وقال الجمهور إن أول مشاهده أحد، بعثه عمر على مساحة الأرض بعد فتح الكوفة، وولاه علي على البصرة فغلبه عليها طلحة والزبير فكانت قصتها المشهورة في وقعة الجمل؛ مات في خلافة معاوية.",
  "en": "An Ansari, brother of Sahl ibn Hunayf; al-Tirmidhi alone said he fought at Badr, while the majority say his first campaign was Uhud; Umar sent him to survey the land after Kufa was conquered, and Ali appointed him over Basra but Talha and al-Zubayr took it from him, the well-known episode behind the battle of the Camel; he died in Mu'awiya's caliphate."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun",
  "period/umayyad"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "battles"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "عثمان بن حنيف الأنصاري"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "مذكور في الإصابة ترجمة رقم 5908 (ص 1005).",
    "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 5908، ص 1005",
   "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 1005, entry 5908)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "[[person/uthman-ibn-hunayf|عثمان بن حنيف]] الأنصاري، ويحيل ابن حجر في نسبه إلى ترجمة أخيه سهل {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1005}. قال الترمذي وحده: إنه شهد بدراً، وقال الجمهور: أول مشاهده أحد {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1005}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "مساحة الأرض",
     "markdown": "روى ابن أبي شيبة عن أبي مجلز: بعث عمر عثمان بن حنيف على مساحة الأرض، يعني بعد أن فُتحت [[place/kufa|الكوفة]]، وفي البخاري أن عمر قال له ولعمار: «أتخافان أن تكونا قد حملتما الأرض ما لا تطيق» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1006}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "ولاية البصرة",
     "markdown": "كان [[person/ali-ibn-abi-talib|علي]] قد استعمله على [[place/basra|البصرة]] قبل أن يقدم عليها، فغلبه عليها [[person/talha-ibn-ubaydullah|طلحة]] و[[person/zubayr-ibn-al-awwam|الزبير]]، «فكانت القصة المشهورة في وقعة الجمل» كما يقول ابن حجر {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1006}. وروى عنه ابن أخيه أبو أمامة بن سهل وطائفة، وقالوا إنه سكن الكوفة ومات في خلافة معاوية {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.1006}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/uthman-ibn-hunayf",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "[[person/uthman-ibn-hunayf|Uthman ibn Hunayf]] al-Ansari; for his lineage Ibn Hajar refers to his brother Sahl's entry {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1005}. Al-Tirmidhi alone said he witnessed Badr; the majority said his first battle was Uhud {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1005}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Measuring the land",
     "markdown": "Ibn Abi Shayba relates from Abu Mijlaz: Umar sent Uthman ibn Hunayf over the land survey — after [[place/kufa|Kufa]] was conquered — and in Bukhari, Umar said to him and to Ammar: \"do you fear you have loaded the land with more than it can bear?\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1006}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The governorship of Basra",
     "markdown": "[[person/ali-ibn-abi-talib|Ali]] had appointed him over [[place/basra|Basra]] before he came to it; [[person/talha-ibn-ubaydullah|Talha]] and [[person/zubayr-ibn-al-awwam|al-Zubayr]] overpowered him there — \"and there was the famous affair of the battle of the Camel\", as Ibn Hajar says {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1006}. His nephew Abu Umama ibn Sahl and a number related from him; they said he settled at Kufa and died in Mu'awiya's caliphate {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 1006}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/uthman-ibn-hunayf",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
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  {
   "to": "group/ansar",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "place/kufa",
   "type": "lived_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
   ]
  }
 ],
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  "person/al-bara-ibn-azib",
  "event/expedition-of-al-sawiq",
  "event/expedition-of-buhran",
  "event/expedition-of-dhu-amarr",
  "person/abd-allah-ibn-rawaha",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-amr-ibn-haram",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-atik",
  "person/amr-ibn-al-jamuh"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}