Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
Abu Ayoub Al-Ansari أبو أيوب الأنصاري | |
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Marwan ibn al-Hakam (662–669) | |
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| Spouse(s) | Umm al-Hasan bint Zayd ibn Haris Umm al-Ayyub al-Ansari |
| Relations | Banu Khazraj (Banu Najjar) |
| Children | Abu Mansur al-Tabi'i Abd al-Rahman (died as an infant) Khalid Ayyub Umrah |
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Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
Biography
Abu Ayyub was born in Medina, Hejaz as Khalid bin Zayd to the Najjar family of the Banu Khazraj. As Abu Ayyub was the head of his family, he was one of the chosen elders in Medina who went to the valley of Aqaba and pledged allegiance to Islam at the hands of Muhammad, who named him Abu Ayyub al-Ansari. After the migration, Muhammad united the Muhajiruns and Ansars into a single allegiance.
Waqif in Al-Masjid an-Nabawi
He was chosen as the
Life in Egypt
Following the Muslim conquest of
During his military career, "he did not stay away from any battle in which the Muslims engaged from the time of Muhammad to the time of
Last military campaign
In a hadith in Qital al-Rome, a chapter of Sahih Muslim, Muhammad prophesied that the first army to charge Constantinople will enter Paradise.
About this battle, Aslam ibn 'Imran narrates that when they were fighting the Byzantines, a Muslim soldier penetrated deep into enemy ranks. The people exclaimed, "
Descendants
The descendants of Abu Ayyub can be found around the
]Mosque and türbe
“built of white marble by Mehmed II, the Conqueror, in 1459, adjacent to the türbeh of Abu Eyúb Ensari, the legendary standard-bearer of the prophet, whose tomb here was revealed in a vision a few days after the conquest…”[1]
After the
Some hadith narrated by Abu Ayyub
Abu Ayyub al-Ansari is credited with narrating many sayings of Muhammad. Well-known examples of these include:
- The Messenger of Allah said: "It is not permissible for a Muslim to shun his brother for more than three nights. When they meet, this one turns away (from that one) and that one turns away (from this one) and the best of them is the one who greets his brother first."[11]
- Abu Ayyub al-Ansari narrates that on the night of La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah (Arabic لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله)."[12]
See also
- Sunni view of the Sahaba
Notes
- ^ a b "A Part of the Eyoub (i.e., Uyüp) Cemetery, I, Constantinople, Turkey". World Digital Library. 1890–1900. Retrieved 2013-10-18.
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- ^ Yarshater 1985–2007, v. 17: p. 206; The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition (12 vols.). Leiden: E. J. Brill. 1960–2005.; Khalifah ibn Khayyat 1985, p. 201.
- ^ Masud ul-Hasan, Hadrat 'Umar Farooq, Islamic Publications Ltd. Lahore 1982
- ^ Muhammad ibn Sa'd, Kitāb at-Tabāqat al-Kabīr (The Great Book of Generations).
- ^ 'the real hero of the campaign was the aged Abu Ayyub al-Ansari ... whose presence in the contingent was desired for the blessing that might bring'. In Hitti (1951, pp. 201–202).
- ^ "Qur'an, Chapter 2 Baqara, first half of verse 195".
- ^ "Ansaris of Yusufpur". November 2013.
- ^ "Ayyub Sultan Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey". Archived from the original on 2018-08-22. Retrieved 2014-11-29.
- ^ Goodwin 1971, p. 412.
- ^ "Agreed upon hadith by Sahih Bukhari and Muslim".
- ^ from Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Majma al-Zawa'id
Bibliography
- Goodwin, Godfrey (1971). A History of Ottoman Architecture. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-27429-0.
- Khalifah ibn Khayyat (1985). al-Umari, Akram Diya' (ed.). Tarikh Khalifah ibn Khayyat, 3rd ed (in Arabic). Al-Riyadh: Dar Taybah.
- Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, History v. 18 "Between Civil Wars: The Caliphate of Mu'awiyah," transl. Michael G. Morony, SUNY Press, Albany, 1987.
- Muhammad Ibn Sa'd, Kitab at-Tabaqat al-Kabir, np, nd.
- Hitti, Philip K. (1951). A History of the Arabs (Revised ed.). London. )
- ISBN 978-0-7914-7249-1.
- Talib Hashmi, Seerat Mezban e Rasool (SAW) Hazrat Abu Ayub Ansari (R.A), Lahore; Taha pub; 2005
- Mahmud Ansari, Ansaris of Yusufpur 2013