Sa'd ibn Malik al-Khudri

سعد بن مالك الخدري

c. 612 CE – 693 CE · 74 AH

A Companion of the Prophet ﷺ from the Ansar, of the Khudra clan, who transmitted hadith.

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Roles
Companion
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia
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Life in time

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Pre-Islamic Arabia · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Halima al-Sa'diyya · Asma bint Abi Bakr · Abdullah ibn Abbas · Abu Hurayra · Umm Salama (Hind bint Abi Umayya)

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

  • CompanionTradition

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

Overview

A Companion of the Prophet, of the Banu Khudra of the Ansar, who narrated hadith. His full name in the encyclopedia is Sa'd ibn Malik ibn Sinan al-Khazraji al-Ansari al-Khudri 1.

Dates

The encyclopedia gives his birth as around 612 CE and his death in the year 74 AH (693 CE). These dates are given on the basis of transmitted report and need a second source 1.

Notes for researchers

  • The entry rests on the encyclopedia Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa al-Udaba' alone, with no page numbers in the data. It needs an additional source.

People and things also explored

The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· Command, prohibition and capacity· Bid'a (religious innovation)· Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Sa'd ibn Malik al-Khudri”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/sad-ibn-malik-al-khudri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings

al-Mas'udi's etymology of the abjad numeral letters — the 29 letters of the abjad order named after six kings of Shu'ayb's people: Abjad of Mecca and the Hijaz, Hawwaz and Hutti of Wajj (the Ta'if and Najd lands), and Kalamn, Sa'fas and Qursht of Madyan or Egypt.