Saad bin Abi Waqqas Malik al-Zuhri al-Qurashi
one of the ten promised Paradise, and one of the first to convert to Islam. It was said that he was the third to convert to Islam, and it was said that he was the seventh, and he was the first to throw an arrow. For the sake of God, and the Prophet said to him: “May my father and mother be sacrificed for you.” He was one of the Prophet’s maternal uncles, and one of the six Shura Council members who were chosen by Omar bin Al-Khattab to choose the Caliph after him.
Saad migrated to Medina. He witnessed the Battle of Badr and the Battle of Uhud and remained steadfast in it when he ruled over the people. He witnessed the Battle of the Trench and pledged allegiance in Hudaybiyyah. He witnessed Khaybar and the conquest of Mecca. He
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He is: Saad bin Abi Waqqas al-Qurashi al-Zuhri, and the name of Abu Waqqas: Malik bin Wahayb, and it was said: Uhayb bin Abd Manaf bin Zahra bin Kilab bin Murra bin Kaab bin Luay bin Ghalib bin Fahr bin Malik bin al-Nadr bin Kinanah bin Khuzaymah bin Mudrikah bin Ilyas bin Mudar Bin Nizar bin Maad bin Adnan.
His mother was Hamnah bint Sufyan bin Umayyah bin Abd Shams bin Abd Manaf bin Qusayy, and it was said: Hamnah bint Abi Sufyan bin Umayyah, cousin of Abu Sufyan bin Harb bin Umayyah.
He shares his lineage with the Prophet through Kilab ibn Murrah. He is from the Banu Zahra and they are the descendants of Amna bint Wahb, the mother of the Prophet. Therefore, he is considered one of the maternal uncles of the Prophet.
His brothers:
Amer bin Abi Waqqas, one of the first predecessors, and from Abyssinia, witnessed the Battle of Uhud, and he was carrying messages from the leaders of the Muslim armies in the Levant to the Caliph in Medina. He was Abu Ubaidah’s deputy over the emirate of Jund al-Sham.
Utbah ibn Abi Waqqas differed regarding his conversion to Islam. It was said that he was the one who broke the Prophet’s troop in the Battle of Uhud and that he died as an infidel. He is the father of Hashim ibn Utbah.
Umair bin Abi Waqqas, he converted to Islam early, and was killed in the Battle of Badr when he was sixteen years old.
His birth and description
Saad bin Abi Waqqas was born in Mecca and the year of his birth differed. It was said that he was born in the year 23 before the Hijra, and it was said that he was born nineteen years before the mission. Because he said: “I converted to Islam when I was nineteen years old.” Saad grew up among the Quraysh, and worked in sharpening arrows and making bows. Saad was a short, slender man, thick, with a nose, long fingers, curly hair, a hairy body, a man with a slender hair, He is dyed black. Saad was one of the most discerning people. One day he saw something disappear, and he said to those with him: “Do you see something?” “We see something like a bird,” they said. He said: “I see someone riding on a camel.” Then after a short while, Sa’d’s uncle came on my bakhti, and Sa’d said: “O God, we seek refuge in You from the evil of what he has brought.”
His conversion to Islam
Saad was one of the first to convert to Islam, as he was the seventh of seven in Islam. He converted to Islam after six, and it was said after four, and his conversion to Islam occurred before prayer was made obligatory, when he was nineteen years old, and it was said that seventeen years of age. Abu al-Qasim al-Asbahani said: “He converted to Islam and what was on his face hair."; Indicative of his young age, in Sahih al-Bukhari, Saad said: “No one converted to Islam except on the day I converted to Islam, and I stayed for seven days, and I was a third of Islam.” The reason for his conversion to Islam was that he saw a vision urging him to convert to Islam. On the authority of his daughter Aisha, he said:
I saw in a dream, before I converted to Islam, as if I was in darkness and could not see anything when a moon shone for me, so I followed it, as if I was looking at those who had preceded me to that moon, so I looked at Zaid bin Haritha, and at Ali bin Abi Talib, and at Abu Bakr, and as if I was asking them: When Did you end up here? They said: The hour, and I was informed that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was calling to Islam in secret, so I met him in the people of Ajyad, and he had prayed the afternoon prayer, so I converted to Islam, and no one came before me except them. Saad bin Abi Waqas
Abu Bakr used to invite to Islam whomever he trusted among his people, and Saad was among those whom Abu Bakr invited. Ibn Ishaq said: “So he converted to Islam at his hands - meaning Abu Bakr - according to what I was informed of: Al-Zubayr bin Al-Awwam, Uthman bin Affan, and Talha bin Ubb. God's hand, and happiness, And Abd al-Rahman bin Awf, so they set off until they came to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and Abu Bakr was with them, so he presented Islam to them, and recited to them the Qur’an, and He informed them of the truth of Islam, and of the honor that God had promised them, so they believed and began to acknowledge the truth of Islam, and these were the eight people who cursed They came to Islam and prayed They believed the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and believed in what came from God.”
Umm Saad was opposed to his conversion to Islam. When she learned of his conversion, she threatened him that she would not eat or drink until she died. In order to make him return from Islam, Saad rejected that and insisted on Islam, saying: “This verse was revealed about me: And if they strive with you to associate with Me that of which you have no knowledge, then do not obey them, but their companion in this world is kind, and follow The path of him who turns to Me.
Then to Me is your return, and I will inform you of what you used to do. Surah Luqman: 15. I was a man who was virtuous towards my mother, and when she converted to Islam, she said: O Saad, what is this religion that you have introduced? Do you abandon this religion of yours, or I will not eat or drink until I die, and you will reproach me. He said: Do not do that, mother, for I will not give up my religion. He said: So she stayed for a day and a night without eating, and in the morning she was exhausted, so I said: By God, if you had a thousand souls, and one soul came out, I would not abandon this religion of mine for anything. When she saw that, she ate and drank, and God revealed this verse.
Saad was the first to shed blood for the sake of God, as when the Muslims in Mecca prayed, they would go to the paths and make their prayer belittle their people. While Saad was with a group of Muslims on one of the paths of Mecca, when a group of Quraysh appeared upon them, they denounced them and criticized their religion, so they fought. So Saad hit a man with the beard of a camel and made him gash, and it was the first blood shed in Islam. It was said that the gash was Abdullah bin Khatal.
He migrated to the city
Saad was one of the first immigrants to Medina, as his migration was before the arrival of the Prophet. On the authority of Al-Baraa bin Azib, he said: “The first to come to us were Mus’ab bin Umair and Ibn Umm Maktoum, and they used to read the people. Bilal, Saad, and Ammar bin Yasser came, then Omar bin Al-Khattab came in the twenty-first century. From the companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, then the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, came.” When Saad migrated with his brother Umair ibn Abi Waqqas from Mecca to Medina, they stayed in a house belonging to their brother Utbah ibn Abi Waqqas, which he had built in Bani Amr ibn Awf and a wall of his own. Utba had suffered bloodshed in Mecca, so he fled and stayed in Bani Amr ibn Awf, and that was before the mission. Prophetic.