Abū Saʿīd Saʿd ibn Mālik ibn Sinān al-Khazrajī al-Khudrī () was an early ally ('' Ansari'') of the Islamic prophet

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and one of the younger

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, as well as being a supporter of Hadith prohibition. Too young to fight at the

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in 625 where his father

Malik ibn Sinan Malik (; ; ; variously Romanized ''Mallik'', ''Melik'', ''Malka'', ''Malek'', ''Maleek'', ''Malick'', ''Mallick'', ''Melekh'') is the Semitic term translating to "king", recorded in East Semitic and Arabic, and as mlk in Northwest Semitic dur ...

fell, he participated in subsequent campaignsTabari, Imam (1993). ''History of al-Tabari''. New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-0851-5. Although he traveled to Syria once to visit the

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, he resided in

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all his life. Later, he is said to have participated with his fellow Medinans in the defense of their city against the Umayyad army at the

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in 64/683. He is said variously to have died in 63/682, 64/683, 65/684, or 74/693. Despite his withdrawal from broader hadith culture, Abu Said is found to be one of the most prolific narrators of

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quoted in

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, with over 1170 narrations, making him the seventh most prolific Companion in the transmission of the hadith.Muhammad Zubayr Siddiqi, ''Hadith Literature: Its Origin, Development and Special Features'', revised by Abdal Hakim Murad, Cambridge, Islamic Texts Society, 1993, p. 18.

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do not categorically dismiss his narrations, but compare what he narrates with their own sources, as they believe his refusal to write hadiths to have been abused by many

hadith narrators Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...

to fabricate many fanciful narrations, or to create justifications for practices not found from among the

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Hadith attributed to him

The following quotations are from books of hadith. These books relate accounts taken from the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, his family, and his companions. They were compiled by Islamic scholars after Muhammad's death. These quotations include information about those who related the accounts, as well as the accounts themselves. It was narrated from Abu Sa’id al-Khudri that the Messenger of Allah said: “Do not write anything from me; whoever has written anything from me other than the Qur’an, let him erase it and narrate from me, for there is nothing wrong with that.” (Narrated by Muslim, al-Zuhd wa’l-Raqa’iq, 5326) Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported that Muhammad said, "There is no gift better and wider than ." from

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and

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Abu Sa'id al-Khudri narrates that Muhammad said, "He who fasts for a day in the Path of Allah, Allah will keep him away from Hell by a distance of seventy years of journey." from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri narrated that Muhammad said, "The lasting good deeds are: (the saying of) , , , , and ." related from Abu Saeed al Khudri reported that he heard Muhammad say, "While I was asleep, I dreamt that people are brought to me, all of them wearing shirts. Some of the shirts reached only up to the chest and some a little below the chest.

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was also brought to me. His shirt was so long that it trailed on the ground and he dragged it along as he walked." Some of the

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asked him its interpretation and he said, "Religion." from

and Muslim

Narrations

* A narration concerning An-Nisa, 24 * A narration concerning

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