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