Saʿīd ibn Zayd, ( ar, سعيد ابن زيد; 593-671), also known by his '' kunya'' Abūʾl-Aʿwar, was a companion ( ar, الصحابة) of the Islamic prophet

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. Sa'id has been described as a tall, hairy, dark-skinned man.

Conversion to Islam

Sa'id became a Muslim not later than 614.Hughes, T. P. (1885/1999). "Sa'id ibn Zaid" in ''Dictionary of Islam'', p. 555. New Delhi. His wife Fatima was also an early convert. At first they kept their faith secret because Fatima's brother Umar was a prominent persecutor of Muslims. Khabbab ibn al-Aratt often visited their house and read the

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to Fatima. One day Umar entered their house while Khabbab was reading and demanded to know what the "balderdash" was. When they denied that anything had been read, Umar seized Sa'id and knocked him to the floor. Fatima stood up to defend her husband, and Umar hit her so hard that she bled. The couple admitted that they were Muslims. At the sight of the blood, Umar was sorry for what he had done, and asked to see what they had been reading. It was ''

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'', later to become the twentieth ''

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'' of the Qur'an. Impressed by the beauty of the words, Umar decided to become a Muslim.

Emigration to Medina

Sa'id joined the general

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in 622 and at first lodged in the house of Rifa'a ibn Abdul-Mundhir. He was made the brother in Islam of Rafi ibn Malik of the Zurayq clan; but an alternative tradition names his brother in Islam as

Talha ibn Ubaydallah Ṭalḥa ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Taymī ( ar, طَلْحَة بن عُبَيْد اللّه التَّيمي, ) was a Companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In Sunni Islam, he is mostly known for being among ('the ten to whom Paradise was ...

. Sa'id and Talha missed the

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because Muhammad sent them ahead as scouts to report on the movements of Abu Sufyan's caravan. When they heard that they had missed the caravan, they returned to Medina, only to find that Muhammad and his army had already reached Badr. They set out for Badr and met the returning victorious army at Turban. However, Muhammad gave them a share of the ''Maal e Ganimat'' (spoils of war) as if they had been present. Sa'id participated in all the other battles in which Muhammad personally fought. He served as Muhammad's secretary and recorded the verses of the Quran.

During the time of the Caliphs

In the time of

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(r. 661–680) he was Governor of

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Death

He died in 671 CE (51 AH) during the reign of Muawiyah I at al-Aqiq. His body was carried back to Medina and buried there by Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas and Abdullah ibn Umar. Sa'id said that Muhammad once guaranteed

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to ten men who were then present and named nine of them. Then he hinted that the tenth man had been himself. This story of the ten to whom Paradise was promised was corroborated by another of the Ten, Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf.Tirmidhi 46:3747.
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Family

He was the son of Zayd bin Amr, from the Adi clan of the

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, and of Fatima bint Ba'ja of the Khuza'a tribe.Muhammad ibn Saad. ''Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir'' vol. 3. Translated by Bewley, A. (2013). ''The Companions of Badr''. London: Ta-Ha Publishers. His father was murdered in 605.Muhammad ibn Ishaq. ''Sirat Rasul Alalh''. Translated by Guillaume, A. (1955). ''The Life of Muhammad''. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wives and children

Sa'id had over thirty children by at least eleven different women. #

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, also known as Ramla or as Umm Jamil, who was his cousin and a sister of

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, the second

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. ## Abdulrahman ''the Elder'', who left no male-line descendants. # Julaysa bint Suwayd. ## Zayd, who left no male-line descendants. ## Abdullah ''the Elder'', who left no male-line descendants. ## Atiqa. # Umama bint al-Dujayj of the Ghassan tribe. ## Abdulrahman ''the Younger'', who left no male-line descendants. ## Umar ''the Younger'', who left no male-line descendants. ## Umm Musa. ## Umm al-Hasan. # Hamza bint Qays of the Muharib ibn Fihr clan of the Quraysh. ## Muhammad. ## Ibrahim ''the Younger''. ## Abdullah ''the Younger.''. ## Umm Habib ''the Elder''. ## Umm al-Hasan ''the Younger''. ## Umm Zayd ''the Elder''. ## Umm Salama. ## Umm Habib ''the Younger''. ## Umm Sa'id ''the Elder'', who died in her father's lifetime. ## Umm Zayd. # Umm al-Aswad from the

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tribe. ## Amr ''the Younger''. ## al-Aswad. # Dumkh bint al-Asbagh of the

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tribe. ## Amr ''the Elder''. ## Talha, who died in his father's lifetime and who left no male-line descendants. ## Zujla. # Bint Qurba, also of the Taghlib tribe. ## Ibrahim. ## Hafsa # Umm Khalid, a concubine. ## Khalid. ## Umm Khalid, who died in her father's lifetime. ## Umm al-Numan. # Umm Bashir bint Abi Mas'ud ''al-Ansari''. ## Umm Zayd ''the Elder''. # A woman from the

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tribe. ## Umm Zayd ''the Younger'', wife of al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd. # Another Concubine. ## Aisha. ## Zaynab. ## Umm Abdul-Hawla. ## Umm Salih.

References

External links

Biodata at MuslimScholars.info
* https://web.archive.org/web/20061201214811/http://www.youngmuslims.ca/online_library/companions_of_the_prophet/SaidZayd.html * http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Articles/companion/02_abu_bakr.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Zayd, Said 671 deaths 593 births Banu Adi Sahabah hadith narrators