Abu Usayd al-Ansari

Abu Usayd Malik ibn Rabi'a al-Sa'idi al-Ansari (died ca. 60 AH) was a Companion of the Prophet ﷺ from the Banu Sa'ida clan of the Ansar in Medina. He participated in the Battle of Badr and all subsequent campaigns alongside the Prophet ﷺ and was among the honored veterans of the earliest Islamic military engagements.

He is reported to have hosted the Prophet ﷺ for his wedding feast to Zaynab bint Jahsh, contributing food to the celebration. This detail, preserved in the hadith collections, places him in the domestic life of the Medinan community at the center of major events.

He narrated hadith from the Prophet ﷺ that are preserved in the major collections. He was one of the Companions who lived into the Umayyad era, witnessing the dramatic transformation of the Muslim community from the small Medinan state to a vast empire. His son Munir ibn Abi Usayd also narrated from him.

By the time of his death around 60 AH, he had become one of the elderly survivors of Badr — a group the Prophet ﷺ had said could not be harmed, in the context of the hadith that Abu Bakr interpreted as meaning their sins were forgiven. The participants at Badr held a special status in early Islamic consciousness as the community's founding warriors.