Zayd ibn ʿAmr ibn Nufayl
زَيْدُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ نُفَيْلZayd ibn ʿAmr ibn Nufayl
Seeker of the religion of Ibrahim
HanifA nation unto himself
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Zayd ibn ʿAmr ibn Nufayl of Banu Adi rejected both Judaism and Christianity, telling their scholars, 'This is not the religion of Ibrahim,' and refused all idolatry. He rebuked the Quraysh for their idols and for burying their infant daughters, taking in girls condemned to death and raising them himself. The Prophet ﷺ met him as a youth and would not eat the meat sacrificed to idols that Zayd also refused. He died five years before the call to Islam; the Prophet ﷺ said he would be 'raised as a single Ummah by himself,' and that he saw him in Paradise.
Significance
The Hanif of whom the Prophet ﷺ said he would be resurrected as an entire Ummah by himself; father of Saʿid ibn Zayd.