الرحلةThe Journey

عبد الله بن عمر

Ibn 'Umar (RA)

'Abd Allah ibn 'Umar

Also known as: Abdullah ibn Umar

c. 12 BH – 73 AH · c. 610–693 CE

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Son of 'Umar, famed for following the Sunnah in every detail.

Ibn 'Umar accepted Islam as a boy with his father and made the hijrah to Madinah. He was turned away from Badr and Uhud for being too young, and he first fought at the Battle of the Trench. He became known for following the example of the Prophet ﷺ down to the smallest detail, even stopping where the Prophet ﷺ had stopped on a journey.

He was one of the great narrators of hadith and a leading jurist of Madinah for some sixty years after the Prophet ﷺ. He refused positions of power and kept away from the civil wars. His freed slave Nafi' passed his knowledge on to Imam Malik.

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Life journey

  1. c. 610 CE Makkah مكة
  2. 622 CE Madinah المدينة
  3. 693 CE Makkah مكة
    Died 693 CE · 73 AH
    Died in Makkah after performing Hajj.

Places in their life

The Ka'bah in al-Masjid al-Haram, Makkah
The Ka'bah in al-Masjid al-Haram, Makkah
Photo: Adli Wahid (minor modifications by Basile Morin), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
al-Masjid al-Nabawi, the Prophet's Mosque, Madinah
al-Masjid al-Nabawi, the Prophet's Mosque, Madinah
Photo: TheHadiRahim, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources

  • Sahih al-Bukhari (Book of Military Expeditions, the Trench)
  • al-Dhahabi, Siyar A'lam al-Nubala'
  • Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani, al-Isaba fi Tamyiz al-Sahaba
Draft, awaiting scholarly review.
Birth year approximate (fourteen at Uhud).