Al-Miqdad ibn Madi Karib

المقداد بن معد يكرب

Al-Miqdad ibn Madi Karib (may God be pleased with him) ibn Amr, Abu Karima al-Kindi, a Companion who came as a youth from Yemen with the delegation of Kinda, eighty riders in all. He narrated from the Prophet ﷺ, Khalid ibn al-Walid (may God be pleased with him), Mu'adh ibn Jabal and Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (may God be pleased with him); his son Yahya and Khalid ibn Ma'dan narrated from him. He has forty hadith, one of which al-Bukhari alone reports. The page gives his death as 87 AH. ¹

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Roles: Companion
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Umayyad Period
Region: Arabia
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Overview

Al-Miqdad ibn Madi Karib al-Kindi, Abu Karima, a Companion who came from Yemen as a youth with the Kinda delegation (d. 87 AH). ¹

Transmission

He narrated from the Prophet, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Mu'adh ibn Jabal and Abu Ayyub al-Ansari; he has forty hadith, one of which al-Bukhari alone reports. ¹

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.3495

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