Hazrat Abū ‘Ubayd ibn Mas’ūd ibn ‘Amr ibn ‘Umayd ibn ‘Awf al-Thaqafī (also al-Thaqīfī) (Arabic: أبو عبيد بن مسعود بن عمرو بن عمير بن عوف الثقفی), or simply Abu Ubayd (أبو عبيد), was a commander in the army of the Rashidun Caliphate. He was from Ta’if in western Arabia,[1]and belonged to the tribe Banu Thaqif. Al-Muthanna, commander of the Muslim Arabs in al-Hira, had asked Abu Bakr and later Caliph Umar for […]
Mu‘awiya’s calculated reserve no doubt contributed to his ambiguous place in the Muslim imagination, but that is only the beginning. The real problem is that he did not fit neatly into the moral categories which later Muslims devised to evaluate a person’s religious standing – indeed, he subverted them – and so they could never […]
This hadith is about those 12 hypocrites who tried to kill The Holy Prophet in the valley of UQBA while The Prophet was on his way to Medina. The Holy Prophet told their names to his righteous companion Hazrat Hudhaifa Yamani who kept their names secret. Those names remained hidden among the Companions and The […]
