al-Miqdam ibn Ma'dikarib
المقدام بن معدي كرب
A Companion who lived in Syria, called Abu Karima (or Abu Yahya); he settled at Homs and narrated from the Prophet, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Mu'adh and Abu Ayyub; when told that people claimed he never saw the Prophet he swore he had, and that the Prophet had taken him by the lobe of his ear; Ibn Sa'd lists him among the Syrians and says he died in 87 AH aged ninety-one.
At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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Place in the story
- CompanionTradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Al-Miqdam ibn Ma'dikarib ibn Amr ibn Yazid, kunya Abu Karima — or Abu Yahya, it is said 1. He "kept the Prophet's company" and related hadiths from him, and related from Khalid ibn al-Walid, Mu'adh and Abu Ayyub; he settled in Homs 1.
His transmitters
From him relate his son Yahya, his grandson Salih ibn Yahya, Khalid ibn Ma'dan, Habib ibn Ubayd, Yahya ibn Jabir al-Ta'i, al-Sha'bi, Shurayh ibn Ubayd, Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Awf and others 1.
Did he see the Prophet?
Al-Baghawi records through Abu Yahya Sulaym al-Kila'i: we said to al-Miqdam, Abu Karima, the people claim you never saw the Prophet — he said: "yes by God, I saw him, and he took hold of my earlobe while I was walking with an uncle of mine" 2.
His death
Ibn Sa'd lists him in the fourth class of the people of Syria, saying he died in year eighty-seven at ninety-one years of age, and mentions other views on the year of his death 1.
People and things also explored
Command, prohibition and capacityBid'a (religious innovation)Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)Connectedness of the isnad and proven hearingThe Qur'an as the speech of God (in the Tahawi creed)The pause of revelation (Fatra)The first revelationThe Incident of the Slander (Hadith al-Ifk)
Sources
- al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, p. 1458
- al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, p. 1459
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Miqdam ibn Ma'dikarib”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-miqdam-ibn-madikarib/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.