Sahabah

The Companions: anyone who met the Prophet as a believer and died still believing.

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The meaning

What Sahabah means in Islam

The singular is sahabi. That definition is Ibn Hajar's, and it is deliberately wide, so a child lifted up to see him once counts alongside Abu Bakr. At the Farewell Pilgrimage the number present is traditionally given as more than a hundred thousand. Sunni scholarship holds them collectively upright in transmission, which is why hadith critics examine the chain from the generation after them onwards.

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Tabi'unThe second generation: Muslims who met Companions but never met the Prophet himself.التَّابِعُون
AdalahThe uprightness of a narrator: sane, adult, Muslim, not openly sinful, not known for shameful habits.العَدَالَة
AnsarThe Muslims of Madinah who took in the emigrants from Makkah and shared everything with them.الأَنْصَار
MuhajirunThe Muslims who left Makkah for Madinah, leaving homes and property behind.المُهَاجِرُون
Asharah MubashsharahTen Companions named together in one narration as promised Paradise while still alive.العَشَرَةُ المُبَشَّرُون بِالجَنَّة