Abu Suraiya Saburah ibn Ma'bad ibn 'Ausaja al-Juhani, or Sabrah ibn Ma'bad al-Juhani (Arabic: سبرة بن معبد) was one of the companions of

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 monot ...

. Other transliterations of his name include Abu Rabi' al-Madani and Sabura al-Juhanni.

Biography

Family

He was from the Juhinah tribe located around the city of Medina, Saudi Arabia. The Juhainah tribe still inhabits the area around the city of Medina today. He had a son named

Rabi ibn Sabra Rabi' ibn Sabrah al-Juhani (Arabic: ربيع بن سبرة الجهني) was among the narrators of hadith. His father ( Sabrah ibn Ma'bad) is one of the companions of Muhammad, thus he was a Tabi‘in. Tahdhib al-Tahdhib Rabi lived in Medina. H ...

Tahdhib al-Tahdhib ''Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal'' ( ar, الكمال في أسماء الرجال) is a collection of biographies of hadith narrators within the Islamic discipline of biographical evaluation by the 12th-century Islamic scholar Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdis ...

Life

He lived in

Medina Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the second-holiest city in Islam, and the capital of the ...

, participated in the

Battle of the Trench The Battle of the Trench ( ar, غزوة الخندق, Ghazwat al-Khandaq), also known as the Battle of Khandaq ( ar, معركة الخندق, Ma’rakah al-Khandaq) and the Battle of the Confederates ( ar, غزوة الاحزاب, Ghazwat al- ...

, and died during the rule of

Muawiya I Mu'awiya I ( ar, معاوية بن أبي سفيان, Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān; –April 680) was the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 661 until his death. He became caliph less than thirty years after the deat ...

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Narrations

He is the source for the

hadith of Sabra reporting on the prohibition of Mut'ah ''Nikah mut'ah'' ar, نكاح المتعة, nikāḥ al-mutʿah, literally "pleasure marriage"; temporary marriage or Sigheh ( fa, صیغه ، ازدواج موقت) is a private and verbal temporary marriage contract that is practiced in Tw ...

References

Sahabah hadith narrators 7th-century deaths Year of birth unknown {{Islam-bio-stub