(Friday Sermon - March 1, 2019 )

Background

Hazrat Zaid^(ra) bin Wadi‘ah was from the Ansar tribe of Khazraj. He took part in Bai‘at-e-Aqabah and the battles of Badr and Uhud. He was martyred in the latter (Usdul Ghaba, Vol. 2, p. 377, Zaid^(ra) bin Wadi‘ah, Dar-ul-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 2003). His mother was Umme-Zaid bint Harith, and his wife’s name was Zainab bint Sahl with whom he had three children; Sa‘d bin Zaid, Umamah and Umme Kulthum. His son Sa‘d moved to Iraq during the caliphate of Hazrat Umar^(ra) and settled in a village called Aqar Kuf. Aqar Kuf is located near Baghdad, a city of Iraq. (Al-Tabaqaat-ul-Kubra, Vol. 3, p. 410, Zaid^(ra) bin Wadi‘ah, Dar-ul-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 1990) (Mujam Al-Buldan, Vol. 4, p. 155, Aqar Kuf, Dar-ul-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 2001)