Haritha bin Wahb

Haritha ibn Wahb al-Khuza'i (RA) was a companion of the Prophet ﷺ and a brother of Ubaydullah ibn Umar from their mother's side. He is known primarily through a modest but significant corpus of hadith that deal with fundamental aspects of Islamic ethics and eschatology. Among his most cited narrations is the hadith: 'Shall I not inform you who the people of Paradise are? Every humble person considered weak, and if they swear by Allah He fulfils it. Shall I not inform you who the people of Hellfire are? Every cruel, arrogant, and haughty person.' This narration, preserved in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, encapsulates a central ethical teaching of Islam — that worldly status and apparent strength bear no relation to one's standing before Allah, and that humility is among the highest qualities of the believer. Haritha also transmitted hadiths about the proximity of the Day of Judgment and the importance of simplicity and frugality. His narrations are modest in number but consistently touch on significant moral and spiritual themes that the Prophet ﷺ emphasized. He lived through the early years of the Islamic community and participated in the life of the nascent Muslim society in Medina. The scholars of hadith considered him a reliable and trustworthy companion narrator, and his transmissions are preserved in the major hadith collections.