ʿUthmān ibn Maẓʿūn ( ar, عثمان بن مظعون) was one of the Companions of the Islamic prophet

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Biography

He was married to Khawla bint Hakim, who like himself was one of the earliest converts to

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. According to Ibn Ishaq, he led a group of Muslims to

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in the first migration which some of the early Muslims undertook to escape persecution in

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. He was also a cousin of

Umayya ibn Khalaf Umayya ibn Khalaf () (died 13 March 624) was an Arab slave master and the chieftain of the Banu Jumah of the Quraysh in the seventh century. He was one of the chief opponents against the Muslims led by Muhammad. Umayya is best known as the maste ...

. There is a narration that, out of religious devotion, Uthman ibn Maz'un decided to dedicate himself to prayer and take a vow of chastity from his wife. His wife spoke to the prophet

about this, and the prophet gently reminded Uthman that he himself, as the prophet, also had a family life, and that Uthman had a responsibility to his family and should not adopt monasticism as a form of religious practice. He died in the 3rd year after the

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(624/625 CE) and was either the first Companion or the first

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(immigrant to

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) to be buried in the cemetery of

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in Medina.

References

Companions of the Prophet 624 deaths Quraysh Burials at Jannat al-Baqī {{Islam-bio-stub