Abu Saʿid al-Khudri أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِي
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A senior Anṣāri Companion (d. 74 AH) — among the foremost narrators of eschatological hadith including the long Hadith of Intercession; participated at the Trench and beyond.
Overview
Abū Saʿīd Saʿd ibn Mālik al-Khudrī (Arabic: أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِي; c. 612–693 CE / 10 BH–74 AH) was a senior Anṣārī Companion — too young to fight at Uhud (3 AH) but participated in the Trench (5 AH) and most subsequent campaigns. He is among the foremost narrators of eschatological hadith, narrating the long Hadith of Intercession in Sahih Muslim 195 and many key passages on the Sirat, the Dajjāl, and Paradise.
Famous narration
Abū Saʿīd reported the Prophet ﷺ said: "Whoever among you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; if he cannot, then with his tongue; and if he cannot, then with his heart — and that is the weakest of Iman." — Sahih Muslim 49
Death
Died in Medina around 74 AH (693 CE), aged 86. Buried at al-Baqīʿ.
See also
References
- Sahih Muslim 49, 195; Sahih al-Bukhari 7437.
- al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām an-Nubalāʾ, vol. 3 — entry on Abū Saʿīd.
- Ibn Hajar, al-Iṣābah.