Mus'ab ibn Umayr
مصعب بن عميرCompanion · Ambassador
Biography
The first ambassador of Islam, sent to Medina to teach the people before the Hijrah.
Stories
The Muslim Army Formation at Badr: Flanks, Flag, Wells, and Headquarters
militaryDr. Yasir Qadhi narrates the Prophet's ﷺ military organization upon arrival at the plains of Badr and two key decisions, the wells strategy and the he…
Read the full story →The First Hijra: Fifteen Muslims Emigrate to Abyssinia
storyAfter a year and a half of public Dawah, more than a year of open torture, of camel entrails, of burning iron, of choking, of boulder and desert heat,…
Read the full story →The First Jumu'ah and the First Two Khutbahs
story**A Prayer He Had Never Prayed Before** The Prophet ﷺ had never prayed Ṣalāt al-Jumuʿah in his life. Jumuʿah had been commanded while he was still in…
Read the full story →The First Pledge of Aqabah (Bay'at al-Aqabah al-Ula)
storyIn the eleventh year of the Daʿwah, two years before the Hijrah, twelve people from Yathrib arrived for Ḥajj and sought a formal meeting with the Prop…
Read the full story →Mus'ab ibn Umayr in Yathrib: The First Ambassador
storyMuṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr was young, eloquent, and a man who had given up an extraordinary life of luxury to embrace Islam in its earliest days. The Prophet ﷺ…
Read the full story →The Return from Abyssinia and the Second Hijra of Eighty
storyThe first batch of Abyssinian emigrants, twelve men and five women, seventeen in total, returned to Mecca on a false rumor that Quraysh had accepted I…
Read the full story →The Conversion of Sa'd ibn Mu'adh and Usayd ibn Hudayr
storyWhen Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr began preaching in the house of Asʿad ibn Zurārah, word reached the leaders of the tribes. Two of the most powerful young leade…
Read the full story →Treatment of the Badr Prisoners in Madinah: Mercy, Ransom, and the Abbas Miracle
historicalArrival in Madinah and Distribution of Prisoners The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa-sallam arrived back in Madinah with all 70 prisoners of war (after…
Read the full story →The Shura Debate: Stay in Medina or March to Uhud?
historical**The Meeting** By approximately the 11th of Shawwāl, the Prophet ﷺ had confirmed, through independent spies after al-ʿAbbās's letter, that the Quray…
Read the full story →Khalid's Counter-Offensive and the Crisis at Uhud
historical**The One Weak Link** The Prophet ﷺ had engineered an almost perfectly sealed military position at Uḥud: - **Three sides** protected by the mountain…
Read the full story →The Martyrdom of Mus'ab ibn Umayr
battleShaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr (raḍiyallāhu ʿanhu) was the standard-bearer of the Muslim army at Uḥud. The Shaykh's reconstruction pl…
Read the full story →The False Rumor of the Prophet's Death and Anas ibn al-Nadr's Stand
battleShaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr shared the Prophet's (ﷺ) complexion and, according to some reports, somewhat resembled him in facial f…
Read the full story →Hamnah bint Jahsh and the Anonymous Widow of Uhud
battleShaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: HAMNAH BINT JAHSH Among the households the Prophet (ﷺ) personally visited to break the news of the dead, likely, Dr. Qa…
Read the full story →The Second Pledge of Aqabah (Bay'at al-Aqabah al-Thaniyah)
storyIn the twelfth year of the Daʿwah, approximately Dhul-Ḥijjah, a few months before the Hijrah, approximately 75 people from Yathrib came for Ḥajj: 72 m…
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