(Friday Sermon - November 23, 2018 )

Background and Participation in Battles

There are varying opinions about his name; some have recorded his name as Khalifa bin Adiyy and also Ulaifah bin Adiyy. He took part in the Battle of Badr and Uhud. Ulaifah bin Adiyy bin Amr bin Malik bin Amr bin Malik bin Ali bin Biyadha was from among those companions who took part in the Battle of Badr. (Usdul Ghaba Fi Marifati Al-Sahaba, vol. 1, pp. 710-711, Khaldah bin Adiyy, Dar-ul-Fikr wa An Nashr wa At Tauzi’, Beirut, 2003) (Ashaab-e-Badr, Qazi Muhammad Sulaiman Mansoorpuri, p. 179, Ulaifah bin Adiyy, Maktabatu Islamiyya, 2015)

He embraced Islam prior to the Battle of Badr and the first thing he did after that was to take part in the Battle of Badr and was thus honoured to be counted among the companions who took part in the Battle of Badr. He also took part in the Battle of Uhud, but thereafter, his name does not appear in any historical account and there are no further details about him. His name however reappears during the era of Hazrat Ali’s^(ra) Khilafat wherein he took part in all the battles during that time. There is also no mention of the year of his demise in any account of history. (Habib-e-Kibriya kay tin sau Ashaab, Taalib Hashmi, p. 221, Khalifah bin Adiyy, Al Qamr Enterprise, Lahore, 1999)