Al-Bara' ibn Azib

Not to be confused with Al-Bara' ibn Malik.

Al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib al-Anṣārī (Arabic: البراء بن عازب الأنصاري; died 690) was one of the companions of Muhammad and narrator of hadith.[1]

Biography

He converted to Islam at a young age and fought beside Muhammad in fifteen battles, including the Battle of Khaybar, from which he reported hadith [2] In 645, during the caliphate of Uthman, he was made governor of al-Ray (in Persia). He eventually retired to Kūfā and there he died in 690.[3]

Significant events

• He reported the hadith of hadith of the pond of Khumm[4] and also figures in the transmission of numerous ḥadīth in the collections of Muslim and Bukhārī.
• When Umar was at Fatimah's house,[5] al-Bara was in it.

See also

• Abu Juhayfa

References

1. Hadith Books
2. see Hadith of prohibition of Mut'ah at Khaybar
3. Khatib Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, vol.1, pg.177
4. shianews.com Archived 2007-07-08 at the Wayback Machine quoting Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal in his Musnad, al Matbaat al Maymaniyyah, Egypt, 1313, from al Bara' ibn Azib (iv, 281)
5. A Shi'i-Sunni dialogue on Al-Islam.org [1] Archived 2011-06-10 at the Wayback Machine