Atiyah ibn Sa'd

Atiyah ibn Sa'd ibn Junādah al-'Awfi
Personal
Died111 AH/729 CE[1]
Kufa, Umayyad Caliphate
ReligionIslam
EraUmayyad
RegionMesopotamia
CreedIslam
Muslim leader
Influenced by

Atiyah ibn Sa'd ibn Junādah al-'Awfi (Arabic: عطية بن سعد بن جنادة) [died 729][1] was an early Muslim scholar of Islam. He is regarded as a reliable narrator of hadith. An aged supporter of rebels and a Shia notable of the time, a disciple of the companion of Muhammad Jabir ibn Abd Allah al-Ansari and a famous narrator of Hadith,[2] Atiyya ibn Sa'd Awfi was arrested by Muhammad bin Qasim on the orders of Al-Hajjaj and demanded that he curse Ali on the threat of punishment. Atiyya refused to curse Ali and was punished. While Maclean doesn't give the details of the punishment, early historians like Ibn Hajar Al-asqalani and Tabari record that he was flogged by 400 lashes and his head and beard shaved for humiliation and that he fled to Khurasan and returned to Iraq after the ruler had been changed.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b MacLean 1989, pp. 99–100.
  2. ^ Maclean, Derryl N. (1989), Religion and Society in Arab Sind, BRILL, pp. 126, ISBN 90-04-08551-3
  3. ^ History of al-Tabari Vol. 39, pp. 228, under "Those Who Died in the Year 111", State University of New York Press, (1998).
  4. ^ Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani, "Tahdhib al-Tahdhib", Volume 7, pp 226, narrator no. 413.