– al-sābiqūn al-awwālūn (the earliest forerunners).
They are: Khadijah bint Khuwaylid; ʿAli ibn Abi Talib; Abu Bakr al-Ṣiddīq; Zayd ibn Ḥārithah, the Prophet’s freedman; then ʿUthmān, al-Zubayr, Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqāṣ, Ṭalḥah ibn ʿUbayd Allah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf; then Abu ʿUbaydah ibn al-Jarrah, Abu Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Asad, al-Arqam ibn Abi al-Arqam ibn Asad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar—both of them from Banū Makhzūm—ʿUthmān ibn Maẓʿūn al-Jumaḥī, ʿUbaydah ibn al-Ḥārith ibn al-Muṭṭalib al-Muṭṭalibī, Saʿīd ibn Zayd ibn ʿAmr ibn Nufayl al-ʿAdawī, Asmāʾ bint al-Ṣiddīq, Khabbāb ibn al-Arrat al-Khuzaʿī (ally of Banū Zuhrah), ʿUmayr ibn Abi Waqqāṣ, the brother of Saʿd, ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿūd al-Hudhalī—an ally of Banū Zuhrah—Masʿūd ibn Rabīʿah al-Qāriʾ, one of the men of Badr, Salīṭ ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Shams al-ʿĀmirī, ʿAyyāsh ibn Abi Rabīʿah ibn al-Mughīrah al-Makhzūmī and his wife Asmāʾ bint Salamah al-Tamīmiyyah, Khunays ibn Ḥudhāfah al-Sahmī, ʿĀmir ibn Rabīʿah al-ʿAnzī (ally of the household of al-Khaṭṭāb), ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaḥsh ibn Riʾāb al-Asadī (ally of Banū Umayyah), Jaʿfar ibn Abi Ṭālib al-Hāshimī and his wife Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays, Ḥāṭib ibn al-Ḥārith al-Jumaḥī and his wife Fāṭimah bint al-Mujallal al-ʿĀmiriyyah, his brother Khaṭṭāb and his wife Fukayhah bint Yasār, and their brother Maʿmar ibn al-Ḥārith; al-Sāʾib son of ʿUthmān ibn Maẓʿūn; al-Muṭṭalib ibn Azhar ibn ʿAbd ʿAwf al-Zuhrī and his wife Ramlah bint Abi ʿAwf al-Sahmiyyah; al-Naḥḥām Nuʿaym ibn ʿAbd Allah al-ʿAdawī; ʿĀmir ibn Fuhayrah, the client of al-Ṣiddīq; Khālid ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Umayyah and his wife Umaymah (1) bint Khalaf al-Khuzaʿiyyah; Ḥāṭib ibn ʿAmr al-ʿĀmirī; Abu Hudhayfah ibn ʿUtbah ibn Rabīʿah al-ʿAbshamī; Wāqid ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd Manāf al-Tamīmī al-Yarbuʿī, ally of Banū ʿAdī; and Khālid, ʿĀmir, ʿĀqil, and Iyās, the sons of al-Bukayr ibn