Jabir ibn Samura
جابر بن سمرة
A Companion of Banu Sawa'a, ally of Banu Zuhra, whose mother Khalida was the sister of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas; he and his father were Companions, the authors of the sound collections narrate from him, and he settled in Kufa and died there in 74 AH.
At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
- CompanionTradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Jabir ibn Samura ibn Junada al-Amiri al-Suwa'i, an ally of Banu Zuhra. His mother is Khalida bint Abi Waqqas, sister of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas. Both he and his father had companionship, and the authors of the Sahihs narrate from him 1.
What he related of sitting with the Prophet
Sharik relates from Simak from Jabir, who said: "I sat with the Prophet more than a hundred times" — narrated by al-Tabarani. In the Sahih from him: "I prayed with the Prophet more than two thousand times" 1.
His kunya, residence and death
Connections
- Lived in
- Kufa
- Member of
- Banu Zuhra
People and things also explored
Sa'd ibn Abi WaqqasAdi ibn Hatimal-Ash'ath ibn Qaysal-Bara' ibn Azibal-Miswar ibn Makhramaal-Walid ibn Uqba ibn Abi Mu'aytDimam ibn Tha'labaWa'il ibn Hujr
Sources
- al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, p. 194
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islam.museum contributors. “Jabir ibn Samura”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/jabir-ibn-samura/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.