Muḥammad ibn Saʿd¹ said: “Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī informed us, reporting from his father, from a client of Anas ibn Mālik, that he asked Anas, ‘Did you take part in Badr?’ Anas replied, ‘May your mother lose you! Where could I possibly have been except at Badr?’ Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī added, ‘Anas ibn Mālik went out to Badr with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, while he was still a boy serving him.’”

Our shaykh, the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʼl-Ḥajjāj al-Mizzī, remarks in his Tahdhīb²: “Such is al-Anṣārī’s statement, yet none of the early authors of the Maghāzī record it.”

Anas ibn Muʿādh [ibn Anas] ibn Qays ibn ʿUbayd ibn Zayd ibn Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAmr ibn Mālik ibn al-Najjār;

Anasah the Ethiopian, freedman of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him;

Aws ibn Thābit ibn al-Mundhir al-Najjārī;

Aws ibn Khawli ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith ibn ʿUbayd ibn Mālik ibn Sālim ibn Ghanm ibn ʿAwf ibn al-Khazraj al-Khazrajī—Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah says it is Aws ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Khawli;

Aws ibn al-Ṣāmit al-Khazrajī, brother of ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit;

Iyās ibn al-Bukayr ibn ʿAbd Yālīl ibn Nāshib ibn Ghīrah ibn Saʿd ibn Layth ibn Bakr, an ally of Banū ʿAdī ibn Kaʿb.

Letter Bāʾ

Bajīr ibn Abī Bajīr, ally of Banū al-Najjār;

Baḥḥāth ibn Thālabah ibn Khuzmah ibn Aṣram ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿImārah al-Balawī, ally of the Anṣār;

Basbas ibn ʿAmr ibn Thālabah ibn Khurshah ibn Zayd ibn ʿAmr ibn Saʿīd³ ibn Dhubyān ibn Rashdān ibn Qays ibn Juhaynah al-Juhanī, ally of Banū Sāʿidah—he was one of “the two scouts”⁴, together with ʿAddī ibn Abī ʼl-Zaghbāʾ, as noted earlier;

Bishr ibn al-Barāʾ ibn Maʿrūr al-Khazrajī, who died at Khaybar from the poisoned sheep;

Bashīr ibn Saʿd ibn Thālabah al-Khazrajī, father of al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr—some say he was the first to pledge allegiance to al-Ṣiddīq;

Bashīr ibn ʿAbd al-Munḏir, known as Abū Lubābah al-Awsī; the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, sent him back from al-Ruḥāʾ, placed him over Madīnah, and allotted him his share of the spoils and his wage.

Letter Tāʾ

Tamīm ibn Yaʿār ibn Qays ibn ʿAdī ibn Umayyah ibn Jadārah ibn ʿAwf ibn al-Ḥārith ibn al-Khazraj;

Tamīm, freedman of Kharāsh ibn al-Ṣammah;

Tamīm, freedman of Banū Ghanm ibn al-Salam— Ibn Hishām⁵ says he was the freedman of Saʿd ibn Khaythamah.

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¹ d. 230 AH.
² In Tahdhīb al-Kamal.
³ Also read “Saʿīd.”
⁴ The pair who reconnoitred Quraysh on the Prophet’s behalf.
⁵ d. 218 AH.