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Sa'id ibn Zayd (RA)

سعيد بن زيد

d. c. 51 AH date disputed

Son of the Hanif Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayl and husband of Umar's sister Fatimah, in whose house Umar's conversion began. He is one of the narrators of the hadith of the ten promised Paradise.

Biography

Sa'id of Banu Adi accepted Islam early with his wife Fatimah bint al-Khattab. Sahih Bukhari reports Sa'id saying that Umar had once tied him up for his Islam before Umar himself converted; sirah sources describe Umar's conversion after hearing the Quran recited in their house.

He missed Badr because he had been sent on a scouting mission but was given its share. He fought at Yarmuk. Sahih Bukhari and Muslim record the case of Arwa bint Uways, who falsely accused him over land; he invoked against her and his supplication was answered. He narrated the hadith naming the ten promised Paradise (Sunan Abi Dawud; Jami' al-Tirmidhi).

Sources & explanation

۞ Qur'an

No specific verses cited for this node.

📜 Hadith verified on sunnah.com

  • Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3747 Sahih (Darussalam)

    The Ten promised Paradise (al-'Ashara al-Mubashsharah) named in one hadith narrated by 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Awf.

  • Sunan Abi Dawud 4649 Sahih (Al-Albani)

    Sa'id ibn Zayd testified that the Prophet ﷺ named ten people in Paradise.

  • Sahih al-Bukhari 3862 Sahih

    Sa'id ibn Zayd: 'Umar had once tied me up because of my Islam (before he himself embraced Islam).'

  • Sahih Muslim 1610b Sahih

    Arwa bint Uways claimed Sa'id ibn Zayd had taken her land; he recalled the warning about seizing land unjustly and his prayer against her was fulfilled.

💬 Explanation Unverified

Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza's perspective

Methodological note (not a direct quote): Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza's widely known approach is to build narratives primarily on the Quran and Sahih Hadith, to set aside Israiliyat (Judeo-Christian lore absorbed into later tafsir) and weak or fabricated narrations, and to avoid sectarian framing. Applied to this node: Sahih reports form the core; his link to the Hanif tradition (Phase 1) is through his father.

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Further references

  • Sahih Bukhari (Sa'id on Umar)
  • Sahih Bukhari & Muslim (Arwa bint Uways)
  • Jami' al-Tirmidhi (hadith of the ten promised Paradise, Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf)
  • Sunan Abi Dawud (hadith of the ten, Sa'id ibn Zayd)

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