Khālid ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ ( ar, خالد بن سعيد بن العاص; d. 634 CE), was a
companion to the
Islamic prophet
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mo ...
and a general under the
Rashidun Caliphate.
He was one of the members of Banu Umayya of
Quraysh.
Khalid converted to Islam before 613 CE along with his brother
Amr.
He
migrated to Abyssinia along with his wife Hamaniya,
where he acted as
Umm Habiba
Umm Ḥabība Ramla bint Abī Sufyān ( ar, أم حبيبة رملة بنت أبي سفيان; 589 or 594–665) was a wife of Muhammad and therefore a Mother of the Believers.
Early life
She was the daughter of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb and Safiyya ...
's
wali
A wali (''wali'' ar, وَلِيّ, '; plural , '), the Arabic word which has been variously translated "master", "authority", "custodian", "protector", is most commonly used by Muslims to indicate an Islamic saint, otherwise referred to by the ...
when she married Muhammad while she was in
Abyssinia
The Ethiopian Empire (), also formerly known by the exonym Abyssinia, or just simply known as Ethiopia (; Amharic and Tigrinya: ኢትዮጵያ , , Oromo: Itoophiyaa, Somali: Itoobiya, Afar: ''Itiyoophiyaa''), was an empire that historica ...
.
In 633 CE he was appointed commander of Syrian campaign by
Abu Bakr
Abu Bakr Abdallah ibn Uthman Abi Quhafa (; – 23 August 634) was the senior companion and was, through his daughter Aisha, a father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, as well as the first caliph of Islam. He is known with the honor ...
. In 634 CE he was married to
Umm Hakim bint al-Harith ibn Hisham
Umm Ḥakīm bint al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām ( ar, أم حكيم بنت الحارث بن هشام) was a female companion of Muhammad and later a wife of Umar, the second caliph of Islam.
Family life
Umm Hakim was daughter of al-Harith al-Mak ...
on the evening preceding
battle of Marj al-Saffar, he was killed in the battle.
References
Banu Umayya
Muhajirun
634 deaths
Arab people of the Arab–Byzantine wars
People of the Muslim conquest of the Levant
Generals of the Rashidun Caliphate
Companions of the Prophet
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