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Ma'n ibn Yazid ibn al-Akhnas (Companion)

معن بن يزيد بن الأخنس

Ma'n ibn Yazid ibn al-Akhnas al-Sulami, Abu Yazid, a Companion from the clan of Banu Malik ibn Khafaf. He narrated from the Prophet ﷺ, and Abu al-Juwayriya al-Jarmi, Suhayl ibn Dharr and Utba ibn Rafi' narrated from him. He held a standing with Umar ibn al-Khattab (may God be pleased with him), fought at Badr and at the conquest of Damascus, lived in Kufa, entered Egypt and then settled in Syria, and fought at Siffin with Mu'awiya. 1

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Roles
Companion · Transmitter
Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Summary

Ma'n ibn Yazid ibn al-Akhnas al-Sulami, Abu Yazid, was a Companion from the clan of Banu Malik ibn Khafaf. He narrated from the Prophet, and Abu al-Juwayriya al-Jarmi, Suhayl ibn Dharr and Utba ibn Rafi' narrated from him. 1

Career

He held a standing with Umar ibn al-Khattab, fought at Badr and at the conquest of Damascus. He lived in Kufa, then entered Egypt and settled in Syria, and fought at Siffin with Mu'awiya. 1

Date of death

The encyclopedia gives his death as 54 AH, marked with a question mark. 1

People and things also explored

Ahl al-Harb (the people at war with the Muslims, their status and the rules that govern dealings with them)· Anfal (spoils and the other gains taken from the enemy, and their divisions)· The angels at Badr· Dissuading others from fighting· Ghanima (spoils of war)· Hudna (truce with non-Muslims)· Hujna (hybridness, in the fiqh sense: spoils shares and speech)· The fifth of spoils (khums)

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.6455
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Ahl al-Harb (the people at war with the Muslims, their status and the rules that govern dealings with them)

Ahl al-harb are non-Muslims who have not entered a covenant of protection and enjoy neither the safe-conduct nor the treaty of the Muslims. They are distinguished from the protected people, the rebels, those with a treaty and those under safe-conduct; a protected person, a treaty-holder or a holder of safe-conduct becomes a combatant by joining the land of war or by breaking the covenant. Their blood and property are lawful to take where there is no covenant, and are protected where there is one. The Muslim may not betray them once they have granted him safe-conduct; the destruction of their property is allowed by agreement where it serves the Muslims, and the jurists differ where it serves no purpose. Gifts and alms to them are allowed by the majority, a will in favour of a named person is allowed by the Shafi'is and Hanbalis but not by the Hanafis and Malikis, and an endowment in their favour is void by agreement. Food and similar goods may be exported to them; arms may not be exported in war. A Muslim man may marry a Christian or Jewish woman of the land of war, as of the protected people.