all arranged alphabetically, after first mentioning the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, then Abū Bakr, ʿUmar¹, ʿUthmān, and ʿAlī—may Allah be pleased with them all.

This, then, is the roll of the Muslims who witnessed Badr, set out according to the letters of the alphabet². It is taken from al-Ḥāfiẓ Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Maqdisī’s work al-Aḥkām al-Kabīr and other sources, after beginning with their leader, their pride, and the master of the children of Adam, Muḥammad the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.

Letter Alif
• Ubayy ibn Kaʿb al-Najjārī, the master-reciter of the Qur’an;
• al-Arqam ibn Abī al-Arqam;
• Abū al-Arqam ʿAbd Manāf ibn Asad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Makhzūm al-Makhzūmī;
• Asʿad ibn Yazīd ibn al-Fākih ibn Yazīd ibn Khalda ibn ʿĀmir ibn al-ʿAjlān;
• Aswad ibn Zayd ibn Thaʿlaba ibn ʿUbayd ibn Ghanm—as reported by Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah.³

al-Umawī said it was Suwād ibn Razzām ibn Thaʿlaba ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿAdī, though he expressed some doubt about that identification. Salamah ibn al-Faḍl, citing Ibn Isḥāq,⁴ gave the name as Suwād ibn Zurayq ibn Thaʿlaba, while Ibn ʿĀidh recorded it as Suwād ibn Zayd.⁵

• Usayr ibn ʿAmr al-Anṣārī, known as Abū Sulayṭ.
It is also said that he was Usayr ibn ʿAmr ibn Umayyah ibn Lawdhān ibn Sālim ibn Thābit al-Khazrajī, though Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah did not mention him.

• Anas ibn Qatādah ibn Rabīʿah ibn Khālid ibn al-Ḥārith al-Awsī—this is the form given by Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah.⁶ al-Umawī, in his Sīrah, however, calls him Unays.⁷

[Author’s note] As for Anas ibn Mālik, the Prophet’s attendant, ʿUmar ibn Shabbah al-Numayrī⁸ relates—through Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, from his father, from Thumāmah ibn Anas—that Anas was asked, “Did you witness Badr?” He replied, “And where could I possibly have been but at Badr? May your mother be bereft of you!”