Al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib al-Anṣārī ( ar, البراء بن عازب الأنصاري; died 690) was one of the companions of

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Biography

He converted to Islam at a young age and fought beside Muhammad in fifteen battles, including the

Battle of Khaybar The Battle of Khaybar ( ar, غَزْوَة خَيْبَر, label=Classical Arabic, Arabic) was fought in 628 Common Era, CE between the early Muslims led by Muhammad and Jews living in Khaybar, an oasis located 150 km from Medina in the n ...

, from which he reported hadith In 645, during the

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Uthman Uthman ibn Affan ( ar, عثمان بن عفان, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān; – 17 June 656), also spelled by Colloquial Arabic, Turkish and Persian rendering Osman, was a second cousin, son-in-law and notable companion of the Islamic proph ...

, he was made governor of al-Ray (in Persia). He eventually retired to Kūfā and there he died in 690.

Significant events

*He reported the hadith of

hadith of the pond of Khumm The Ghadīr Khumm ( ar, غَدِير خُم) refers to a gathering of Muslims to attend a sermon delivered by the Islamic prophet Muhammad on 16 March 632 CE (18 Dhu al-Hijjah 10 AH). The gathering is said to have taken place at the Ghadir K ...

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quoting Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal in his Musnad, al Matbaat al Maymaniyyah, Egypt, 1313, from al Bara' ibn Azib (iv, 281) and also figures in the transmission of numerous ḥadīth in the collections of Muslim and Bukhārī. *When Umar was at Fatimah's house,

A Shi'i-Sunni dialogue A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes'' ...

on Al-Islam.or

al-Bara was in it.

References

690 deaths Year of birth unknown Sahabah hadith narrators {{Islam-bio-stub