Fudalah ibn Ubayd
فُضَالَة بْن عُبَيْدFuḍālah ibn ʿUbayd
Biography
An Anṣārī Companion, the narrator of the Prophet's ﷺ supplication over the failing camels on the return from Tabūk, that Allāh carry those who travel in His path, "upon the weak and the strong, the wet and the dry," over land and sea. He said the animals became so strong that the riders struggled to hold them back to Medina, but that he had puzzled for years over the mention of the sea. He lived to take part in the naval conquest of Cyprus in Muʿāwiyah's time, and said that when he saw the ships he finally understood what the Prophet ﷺ had asked for that day at Tabūk. (Not to be confused with Fuḍālah ibn ʿUmayr, the would-be assassin of the Conquest of Makkah.)
Significance
His narration ties a duʿāʾ made over exhausted camels in the northern desert to the Muslim fleets a generation later, a Companion who witnessed both ends of the same supplication.