(Friday Sermon - May 3, 2019 )

Background

Hazrat Abdullah^(ra) bin Umair belonged to the tribe of Banu Jidaarah and participated in the Battle of Badr. In one narration, his father’s name has also been reported as Ubaid instead of Umair. Similarly, some have reported his grandfather’s name as Adiyy and others have stated it as Haritha. Ibn Hisham has reported his tribe as Banu Jadaara, Ibn Ishaq on the other hand has reported it as Banu Haritha. Both, Ibn Hisham and Ibn Ishaq, were historians. (al-Sirat al-Nabawiyyah li Ibn Hisham, p. 467, al-Ansar wa man ma’ahum, Dar-ul-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, 2001) (Al-Tabaqaat-ul-Kubra li ibn Sa‘d, Vol. 3, p. 277, Abdullah bin Umair, Dar-Ihyaa al-Turath al-Arabi, 1996) (Al-Isaba Fi Tamyeez Al-Sahaba, Vol. 4, p. 172, Abdullah bin Umair, Dar-ul-Kutub al-Ilmiyya, Beirut, 2005)