Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayl, The seeker of Ibrahim's way
In the hadithThe seeker of Ibrahim's way
Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufaylزيد بن عمرو بن نفيل
Approximate dateMakkah
A Makkan who refused idols and searched for the religion of Ibrahim before Islam.
Zayd would lean against the Kaaba and say, "O Quraysh, none of you follows the religion of Ibrahim but me." He would not eat meat sacrificed to idols, rescued baby girls their fathers meant to bury, and travelled to Syria seeking the true faith. He died a few years before the revelation began.
What does the hadith say?
What grew out of it?
His son Sa'id ibn Zayd became one of the ten promised Paradise.
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