– The Leading Men of Badr:
Abu Bakr, ʿUmar, ʿAli, Saʿd, al-Zubayr, Abu ʿUbaydah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, Zayd ibn Ḥārithah, Miṣṭaḥ ibn Uthāthah, Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr, Ibn Masʿūd, al-Miqdād, Suhayb, ʿAmmār, Abu Salamah, Zayd ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Saʿd ibn Muʿādh, ʿAbbād ibn Bishr, Abu al-Haytham ibn al-Tayyihān, Qatādah ibn al-Nuʿmān, Rifāʿah and Mubashshir—the two sons of ʿAbd al-Munḏir; their brother Abu Lubābah was not present, for he had been left in charge of Medina—Abu Ayyūb, Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, the sons of ʿAfrāʾ, Abu Ṭalḥah, Bilāl, ʿUbādah, Muʿādh, ʿItbān ibn Mālik, ʿUkkāshah ibn Miḥṣan, ʿĀṣim ibn Thābit, and Abu al-Yasar—may Allah be pleased with them all.
- Rabiʿah ibn al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim, the Hāshimī*
Abu Arwā.
His children were: Muḥammad, ʿAbd Allāh, al-Ḥārith, al-ʿAbbās, Umayyah, ʿAbd Shams, ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, Arwā the Elder, Hind, Arwā, and Ādam.
Ādam had been sent out to be nursed among the tribe of Hudhayl, but during a conflict between them he was killed by the Banū Layth ibn Bakr. He was only a little child, crawling in front of the houses, when a stone struck him and ended his life.
The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “And the first blood I remit (1) is the blood of the son of Rabiʿah ibn al-Ḥārith (2).”
Another report relates that he said about him: “Ādam.” He saw in