Abdullah ibn Umar, Follower of every footstep

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CompanionFollower of every footstep

Abdullah ibn Umarعبد الله بن عمر

Approximate dateMadinah

Umar's son, who copied the Prophet's example so closely he would pray where he had prayed.

Too young for Uhud, Ibn Umar pledged at Hudaybiyyah and spent his life learning and following the Sunnah. He refused high office and kept away from the civil wars. A great narrator and jurist of Madinah, he gave fatwas for sixty years and died in Makkah in 693.

What does the hadith say?

What grew out of it?

His fatwas are a pillar of the Maliki school through his freed slave Nafi.

Source: hadith · Wikipedia

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