Al-Bara' ibn Azib

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Al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib al-Anṣārī (

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.

• Abu Juhayfa

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