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2 Feb 2023, 20:19

Saad bin abi waqas!!!!


3 Cousin of Amina
3 Banu zuhrah
3 Cousin of Abdur rehman bin awf
3 Born in or shortly after 594 C.E
3 Early convert (influenced by Abu Bakr),
accepted Islam at age of 17
3 Persecution ; mother blackmailed with hunger
strike (instruction of disobeying her from Prophet
(pbuh) whilst still respecting her)
"Either you forsake your new religion or I would
not eat or drink until I die"
3 These verses were regarding his mother and
his relation:
"and we enjoined on man to be good to his
parents... But If they strive to make you join in
worship with Me, thing of which you have no
knowledge, obey them not"
3 Drew first blood from Islam (in early years of
islam in 614 CE when Muslims were in way to
meet Prophet in hills of makkah and polytheists
began to abuse them and fight them)
3 Prophet (pbuh) prayed for him:
"O Allah answer Sa'ad when he supplicates you"
3 Fought boldly in Badr
3 Saved the Prophet in Uhud by shooting
arrows, it's reported by Ali (ra)
" o Saad! Shoot the arrows; may my mother and
father be sacrificed on you"
3 Present at time of conquest of Makkah
3 Present at treaty of Hudaibiya
3 Participated in conquest of Makkah
After Prophet's death:
3 Advisor of first 3 caliphs
3 Led Muslims in battle of Qadissiya in 636 AD
from sickness bed during Umar's caliphate
3 One of 6 people nominated by Hazrat
Umar(ra)
3 Governor of Kufa and Najd during Usman's
reign
3 Introduced Islam to China
3 Died in 54 AH
3 Asked his son to shroud him in the jubbah he
had worn whilst at uhud as he wished to meet
Almighty in that.

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