Khaled bin Sinan al-`Absi () was a revered figure and judge by profession of

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belonging to the Hunafa, who is thought to have lived in the region of

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of the ancient historical region of

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allegedly around AD 520-588, sometime between the 1st and 7th century CE. Though Shafi Usmani places him before the birth of Jesus.Shafi Usmani, Ma’ariful Qur’ānic; V2:pp105 Khalid bin Sinan Al-Absi is a judge and writer of Arab writers and their sages, and he was passionate about the religion of Abraham, calling for the renunciation of idols, wine and usury. Historical accounts narrate that he was one of a

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sent to the

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peoples, beginning with Ismā'īl and ending with

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Ancestry

His ancestry is linked to the clan of Banu 'Abs, descendants of ʿAbs ibn Baghīd ibn Rayth ibn Ghaṭafān, to the tribe of

Ghatafan The Ghaṭafān ( ar, غطفان) were an Arab tribal confederation originally based northeast of Medina. The main branches of the Ghatafan were the tribes of Banu Abs, Banu Dhubyan and Ashja'. They were one of the Arab tribes that interacted wit ...

: "Khalid bin Sinan bin Ghaith bin Maritah bin Makhzum bin Rabi'ah bin Aus bin Malik bin Ghalib bin Qutay'ah bin 'Abs bin Baghid bin Rayth bin

" خالد بن سنان بن غيث بن مريطة بن مخزوم بن ربيعة بن عوذ بن مالك بن غالب بن قطيعة بن عبس بن بغيض بن ريث بن غطفان The Banu 'Abs are distant cousins of Muhammad, the final prophet of Islam, due to his direct descendant from the Arab ancestor

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, who were a group of Ishmaelite Arabs.

Biography

Khaled was born in

50 years before the

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, and learned to read and write at an early age, and he started calling on his people to unite and renounce idols, discard alcohol, usury, and the facilitator, so he took up the judiciary in Bani Abs, as he was a prominent Arab writer before the year of the elephant, and he used to go to literary clubs and markets In Yamama and the

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Sayings between some writers and historians

Some historians and narrators claimed that he was a prophet, and that Muhammad said: “That is a prophet who was lost by his people.” however, it is a weak hadith - from a weak source. In ''

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'', the scholar

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said, this (prior) hadith is against the authentic hadith which also is reported by

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: "the Messenger of Allah (SWS) said: "I am most akin (closest) to 'Isa ibn Maryam ( Jesus, son of Mary), among the whole of mankind, and all the Prophets are of different mothers but belong to one religion and no Prophet was raised between me and Jesus."

Ibn Kathir Abū al-Fiḍā’ ‘Imād ad-Dīn Ismā‘īl ibn ‘Umar ibn Kathīr al-Qurashī al-Damishqī (Arabic: إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير القرشي الدمشقي أبو الفداء عماد; – 1373), known as Ibn Kathīr (, was ...

said, "And He is more like that he was good, righteous man for circumstances and dignities."

Miscellaneous

He should not be confused with the companion of Muhammad of the same name, "Khalid ibn Sinan al-Awsi", who fought in the

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. The name "Khaled" also appears in the

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of Ummi Dawud by

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, the 6th Imam of

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, among a list of persons with whom the supplicant asks (

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) to be blessed; most of whom appear in the

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as prophets. It is believed that this is in reference to Khaled bin Sinan.

References

Khaled the prophet
Farhad Ghorban Dordinejad. A brief biography.

. Commentary on subject's Prophethood.

English translation of the historical accounts of the subject's life. {{Muslim saints 520 births 588 deaths 6th-century Arab people Pre-Islamic Arabia

Ancestry

Biography

Sayings between some writers and historians

Miscellaneous

See also

References