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Abu Lubaba ibn Abd al-Mundhir

أبو لبابة بن عبد المنذر

An Ansari of the Aws, of Banu Amr ibn Awf; his name is disputed (Bashir, Rifa'a or Marwan); the Prophet sent him back on the road to Badr, left him in charge of Medina and gave him a share and the reward of the Badr fighters; it is said he was one of the naqibs on the night of al-Aqaba and he carried the banner of Banu Amr ibn Awf at the conquest.

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Roles
Companion
Tradition
Sunni
Era
The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Arabia
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Place in the story

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Sunni (transmitted)

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Summary

Abu Lubaba ibn Abd al-Mundhir al-Ansari, of the Aws and of Banu Amr ibn Awf 1. His name is disputed — Musa ibn Uqba said Bashir (with dotted b), and so Abu al-Aswad from Urwa, though some said it unpointed; Ibn Ishaq said Rifa'a, as did Ibn Numayr and others; and the author of al-Kashshaf and others mentioned his name as Marwan 1.

Badr and Medina

Ibn Ishaq said: "they claim" the Prophet sent Abu Lubaba and al-Harith ibn Hatib back after they had gone out with him to Badr, appointed Abu Lubaba over Medina, and allotted them both their shares and reward with the men of Badr; Musa ibn Uqba likewise counted him among the Badr men 1.

Al-Aqaba and the banner

They said he was one of the chiefs on the night of al-Aqaba, that Rifa'a and Ma'shar were his brothers, and that Banu Amr ibn Awf's banner on the day of the conquest was with him 1.

Transmission and death

He related from the Prophet; from him relate his two sons al-Sa'ib and Abd al-Rahman, Abdullah ibn Umar, his father Salim ibn Abdullah, his client Nafi', Abdullah ibn Ka'b ibn Malik and others. It is said he died in Ali's caliphate; Khalifa said he died after Uthman's killing; it is said he lived past fifty AH 1.

Connections

Member of
The AnsarBanu Amr ibn Awf
Participated in
The Pledges of AqabaThe Conquest of Mecca (Fath Makka)

People and things also explored

Sa'd ibn KhaythamaAbdullah ibn Amr ibn Haramal-Abbas ibn Ubadaal-Bara ibn Ma'rurAs'ad ibn ZuraraSa'd ibn UbadaUbada ibn al-SamitUsayd ibn Hudayr

Sources

  1. al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, p. 1755
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Sa'd ibn Khaythama

An Ansari of the Aws, one of the twelve naqibs on the night of al-Aqaba and the naqib of Banu Amr ibn Awf; the Prophet used to sit with people in his house at Quba, called 'the house of the crow'; he was killed at Badr after his lot was drawn over his father's, and Ibn Hajar rejects Abu Nu'aym's claim that he was the Abu Khaythama who stayed behind from Tabuk.