al-Arqam ibn Abi al-Arqam

d b ʿ: Al-Arqam ibn Abī al-Arqam and the name of Abī al-Arqam is ʿAbd Manāf ibn Asad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Mukhzūm al-Qurashī al-Makhzūmī.

His mother is Ummīmah bint ʿAbd al-Ḥārith, and it was said: her name is Tamadur bint Ḥudhaym from Banī Sahm, and it was said: her name is Ṣafiyyah bint al-Ḥārith ibn Khālid ibn ʿUmayr ibn Ghubshān al-Khazāʿī, he was known as: Abū ʿAbd Allāh.

He was among the early ones to Islam, he became Muslim old, it was said: he was the twelfth, and he was among the first Muhājirūn, and he witnessed the Battle of Badr, and the Messenger of God ﷺ gave him a sword from it, and he employed him on charity, and he is the one who hid the Messenger of God ﷺ in his house, and it is at the base of Ṣafā, and the Muslims were with him in Mecca when they feared the polytheists, and they did not cease to be there until they completed forty men, and the last of them to become Muslim was ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, and when they completed forty with him, they went out.

Abū ʿUmar said: Ibn Abī Khaythamah mentioned that Abū al-Arqam, the father of al-Arqam, also became Muslim, and it was narrated from Banī Mukhzūm, and this is a mistake.

He said: and Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī and his son made a mistake, they made him the father of ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Arqam, and it is not like that, because ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Arqam is Zuhurī, because ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Arqam ibn ʿAbd Yaghwuth ibn Wahb ibn ʿAbd Manāf ibn Zuhrah, and ʿAbd Allāh was over the house of ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān.

Yaḥyā ibn ʿImrān ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān ibn al-Arqam al-Arqamī narrated, from his uncle ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUthmān, and from the people of his house, from his grandfather ʿUthmān ibn al-Arqam, from al-Arqam, that he prepared to go to the Bayt al-Maqdis, and when he finished his preparation, he came to the Prophet ﷺ to bid him farewell, and he said: What takes you out, a need or trade?, he said: No, O Messenger of God, my father and mother are yours, but I want to pray in the Bayt al-Maqdis, so the Messenger of God ﷺ said: A prayer in this mosque of mine is better than a thousand prayers in any other mosque except the Haram, he said: so al-Arqam sat down.