Sa'sa'a ibn Mu'awiya al-Tamimi

صعصعة بن معاوية التميمي

630~ – 660~

Medina

Sa'sa'a ibn Mu'awiya al-Tamimi, paternal uncle of al-Ahnaf ibn Qays, of Banu Muqa'is of Tamim. He came to the Prophet ﷺ in a delegation and accepted Islam; al-Hakim reports that he heard the Prophet recite the two verses of Surat al-Zalzala on an atom's weight of good and evil and said: 'I do not mind if I never hear anything else; it is enough for me, enough' 1.

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Roles
Companion
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia

Life in time

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Pre-Islamic Arabia · The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Rahman ibn Abra · Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Harith ibn Hisham · Abd al-Rahman ibn Khalid ibn al-Walid · Abd al-Rahman ibn Yamur al-Dili · Abd Allah ibn Abi Talha al-Ansari

In space

Medina

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Overview

Sa'sa'a ibn Mu'awiya ibn Husayn ibn 'Umayr ibn 'Ubada ibn al-Nazzal ibn Murra ibn 'Ubayd ibn Muqa'is ibn 'Amr ibn Ka'b ibn Sa'd ibn Zayd Manat ibn Tamim was the paternal uncle of al-Ahnaf ibn Qays. Al-Hakim takes his lineage from Abu 'Ubayda Ma'mar ibn al-Muthanna, and al-Dhahabi notes in the Talkhis that he came to the Prophet in a delegation and accepted Islam. 1

"Enough for me, enough"

Al-Hakim gives, with his chain through al-Hasan, Sa'sa'a's report that he came to the Prophet and heard him recite the two verses of Surat al-Zalzala saying that whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it, and whoever does an atom's weight of evil will see it (al-Zalzala 7 and 8). He said: "I do not mind if I never hear anything else; it is enough for me, enough." Al-Dhahabi left this hadith out of the Talkhis. 1

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Traveled to
Medina
Member of
Banu Tamim· The Companions

People and things also explored

Nu'aym ibn Yazid al-Tamimi· Qays ibn al-Harith al-Tamimi· Qays ibn Asim· The delegation of Banu Tamim and the boasting contest· al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib· Abd Allah ibn Yazid al-Khatmi· Abd Allah ibn Yazid ibn Hisn al-Awsi (Abu Musa)· Abd Allah ibn Zayd al-Ansari

Sources

  1. al-Mustadrak 'ala al-Sahihayn of al-Hakim — ed. Mustafa 'Abd al-Qadir 'Ata, Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, vol. 3 , p. 711
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Nu'aym ibn Yazid al-Tamimi

One of the men of the Banu Tamim delegation to the Prophet in 9 AH, named by Ibn Ishaq without further detail; the delegation embraced Islam after the contest.