Abu Al-Minhal

Abdullah ibn Mas'ud al-Hudhali (may Allah be pleased with him), often referenced simply as Abdullah in hadith chains, was one of the earliest and most revered Companions of the Prophet ﷺ. He was given singular honors by the Prophet ﷺ including permission to enter his private quarters without announcement and the praise: 'Hold fast to the Sunnah of Ibn Umm Abd.' He was among the first to recite the Quran openly in Mecca, accepting the beatings of the Quraysh with patience. His knowledge of the Quran was unparalleled — he claimed to have received seventy surahs directly from the Prophet ﷺ — and he maintained his own mushaf with certain differences from the Uthmanic standard, a fact that scholars have discussed extensively. He narrated approximately 848 hadiths and his legal positions became the bedrock of the Kufan tradition. Umar ibn al-Khattab sent him to Kufa as a teacher and treasurer, and he remained a central scholarly authority there until the end of his life. He passed away in Medina around 32–33 AH.