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سعد بن معاذ

Sa'd ibn Mu'adh (RA)

Also known as: Saad bin Muaz, Sa'd ibn Muadh

c. 32 BH – 5 AH · c. 590–627 CE

Companions

Chief of the Aws of Madinah, whose acceptance of Islam brought his whole clan with him; at his death the Throne of Allah shook.

Sa'd ibn Mu'adh was the chief of the Aws, one of the two great tribes of Madinah. He accepted Islam through the preaching of Mus'ab ibn 'Umayr before the Hijrah, then went to his clan, the Banu 'Abd al-Ashhal, and told them he would not speak to any of them until they believed; by evening the whole clan had accepted Islam. Before Badr, when the Prophet ﷺ sought the view of the Ansar, Sa'd answered that they would follow him even into the sea.

At the Battle of the Trench in 627 he was struck by an arrow in the arm. After the siege, the Banu Qurayza, who had broken their pact with the Muslims during it, agreed to accept his judgement, and he gave it. He died of his wound soon after. The Prophet ﷺ said that the Throne of the Most Merciful shook at the death of Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, and that seventy thousand angels attended his funeral.

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Life journey

  1. c. 590 CE Madinah المدينة
    Died 627 CE · 5 AH
    Chief of the Aws in Madinah; wounded by an arrow at the Battle of the Trench and died of the wound a few weeks later.

Places in their life

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

  • Ibn Hisham, al-Sira al-Nabawiyya
  • Sahih al-Bukhari (Book of the Virtues of the Ansar, on Sa'd ibn Mu'adh)
  • Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani, al-Isaba fi Tamyiz al-Sahaba
Draft, awaiting scholarly review.
Birth year approximate (he died aged about thirty-seven). The judgement on the Banu Qurayza is mentioned briefly and neutrally; please check. The seventy thousand angels report is from al-Nasa'i and Ibn Sa'd rather than al-Bukhari.