Mad'an (slave)

Mad'an (ميداس) was a slave of Muhammad mentioned in the Hadith.[1]

He was an African slave given to Muhummad in 628AD by a man called Rifa'ah bin Zaid, from the Banu Ad-Dubaib.

Mad'an was shot by an arrow in a place called Wadi al-Qura (Wadi al-'Ula[2]), 360km north of Medina, for stealing a cloak from the spoils of war at the Battle of Khaybar.[3]

References

  1. ↑ The Translation of the Meanings of Summarized Sahih Muslim (Darussalam, 2000).
  2. ↑ Timothy Power, The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate: AD 500–1000(I.B.Tauris, 2012) p115.
  3. ↑ Sunan an-Nasa'i 3827.
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