Biography of Abu Hudhayfa ibn Utba
bin Rabia bin Abd Shams bin Abd Manaf bin Qusayy. His name is Hashim. His mother is Umm Safwan. Her name is Fatima bint Safwan bin Umayyah bin Muharith al-Kinani. Abu Hudhayfah had a son, Muhammad. His mother was Sahlah bint Suhail bin Amr, from Banu Amer bin Luay. He was the one who supported Uthman bin Affan, aided him, and incited the people of Egypt until they marched towards him. And Asim bin Abi Hudhayfah and his mother Amna bint Amr bin Harb bin Umayyah. The descendants of Abu Hudhayfah became extinct, and none of them remained. All of his father's descendants, Utbah bin Rabi'ah, became extinct, except for the descendants of Al-Mughirah bin Imran bin Asim bin Al-Walid bin Utbah bin Rabi'ah. They are in the Levant.
Reported by Muhammad bin Omar, on the authority of Yazid bin Roman, who said: Abu Hudhayfah converted to Islam before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ - peace be upon him - entered the house of Al-Arqam to pray there. They said: Abu Hudhayfah was one of the emigrants of Abyssinia in both migrations, and with him was his wife, Sahlah bint Suhail bin Amr. She was born to him there in the land of Abyssinia, Muhammad ibn Abi Hudhayfah. Reported by Muhammad ibn Umar, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Jaafar ibn al-Zubayr, who said: When Abu Hudhayfah ibn Utbah and Salim, the client of Abu Hudhayfah, migrated from Mecca to Medina, they stayed with Abbad ibn Bishr and killed them all at Al-Yamamah. They said: My brother, Messenger. Allah - peace be upon him - between Abu Hudhayfah and Abbad bin Bishr.
Reported by Muhammad bin Omar, on the authority of his father, who said: Abu Hudhayfah witnessed Badr and called his father Utbah bin Rabi'ah to the stool. His sister Bint Utbah said when he called his father to the stool: The cross-eyed, eagles, and ill-fated bird... Abu Hudhaifa is the worst of people in religion. Did you not thank Abu Rabak from a young age... until you grew up to a young age? Mahjoun? He said: Abu Hudhayfah was a tall man with a beautiful face, synonymous with teeth. He was squinty. He was cross-eyed. He also witnessed Uhud, the Khandaq, and all the scenes with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ - peace be upon him - and was killed on the Day of Al-Yamamah in the year twelve, when he was fifty-three or fifty-four years old. This occurred during the caliphate of Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq. May Allah be pleased with him.