Uways al-Qarani, The best of the Successors
In the hadithThe best of the Successors
Uways al-Qaraniأويس القرني
Approximate dateYemen
A Yemeni the Prophet ﷺ never met, yet told Umar to ask for his prayers.
The Prophet ﷺ described a man from Yemen, of the tribe of Qaran, who had been cured of leprosy except a coin-sized spot, and who was devoted to his mother. He told Umar: if you can, ask him to pray for your forgiveness. Years later Umar found him among the Yemeni troops and did just that.
What does the hadith say?
The lesson
Caring for a parent can raise someone unknown to the highest rank.
Who else is linked?
Source: hadith · Wikipedia
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
People of the hadith
- Hajar
- Jurayj
- The boy of the trench
- The monk of the trench
- The king of the trench
- The three men in the cave
- The man who killed a hundred
- The leper, the bald man and the blind man
- The woman and the cat
- The woman who gave water to a dog
- The man who lent a thousand dinars
- The man who asked his sons to burn him
- The jar of gold
- The man whose charity went astray
- The merchant who forgave debts
- Barsisa
- The last man to enter Paradise
- The Jassasa
- Ibn Sayyad
- Adnan
- Fihr ibn Malik
- Amr ibn Luhay
- Qusayy ibn Kilab
- Abd Manaf
- Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
- Abd al-Muttalib
- Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
- Aminah bint Wahb
- Thuwaybah
- Halimah al-Sa'diyyah
- Bahira
- Nastur
- Maysarah
- Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayl
- Quss ibn Sa'ida
- Waraqa ibn Nawfal
- Abu Talib
- Ashama the Najashi
- Salman's teachers
- Umayyah ibn Abi al-Salt
- Uways al-Qarani