(Friday Sermon - February 8, 2019 )

Background and Participation in Battles

Hazrat Tamim bin Ya‘ar Ansari’s^(ra) father was Ya‘ar. He belonged to the branch of Banu Jadara bin Auf bin al-Harith of the Ansar tribe of the Khazraj. He participated alongside the Holy Prophet^(sa) in the battles of Badr and Uhud. A son by the name of Rib‘ee and a daughter by the name of Jamila were among the children of Hazrat Tamim^(ra). His mother belonged to the tribe of Banu Amr. (Al-Tabaqaat-ul-Kubra, Vol. 3, p. 407, Tamim bin Ya’ar^(ra), Dar-ul-Kutub Al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 1990)