Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud (Arabic: عبد الله بن مسعود, romanized: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd; c. 594 – c. 653) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad whom Sunni Islamic tradition regards the greatest interpreter of the Quran of his time and the second ever.
However, Umm Abd's mother, Hind bint Al-Harith, was from the Zuhra clan of the Quraysh, and Masud made an alliance with her brother.
[4]: 120 Abd Allah wore white clothes, and could be recognized in the dark by his distinctive, high-quality perfume.
Abd Allah immediately asked to be taught "some of these words", and Muhammad began to teach him the Qur'an.
Around 614 the Quraysh began a campaign to suppress Islam through the oppression of Muslims of lower social status.
[6]: 304 The Muslims remarked one day that the Quraysh had never heard the Qur'an being recited clearly, and that someone needed to make them listen to it.
[4]: 115 When land in Medina was allocated to the immigrants, the Zuhra clan was given an area behind the mosque, which included plots for Abd Allah and his brother Utba.
[4]: 117 [8] He worked as a personal servant, taking care of Muhammad's bedding, toothbrush, sandals and travelling hygiene.
Abd Allah's foot will be heavier than Mount Uhud in the scales on the Day of Resurrection.
[4]: 116 [6]: 338 After the battle, Muhammad ordered the warriors to search among the corpses for his enemy Abu Jahl, who could be recognised by a distinctive scar on his knee.
Abd Allah found Abu Jahl Amr "at his last gasp" with his leg cut off.
[6]: 608 After the death of Muhammad, Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud became the eighth-most prominent transmitter of hadith with a total of 848 narrations.
"[4]: 119 Abd Allah, in his capacity as treasurer, lent a sum of money to Saad ibn Abi Waqqas, the Governor of Kufa, and when he was unable to repay it, they quarrelled.
Uthman became angry with both of them; in 646 he recalled Saad, extracted the money from him, and replaced him with al-Walid ibn Uqba.
[5]: 50–51 Al-Walid also tried to misappropriate state finances, but Abd Allah refused to comply with his demands.
[19] It is said that Ibn Mas’ud was displeased by the finished product; in particular: When Uthman's agents came to Kufa to burn all the variants, Abd Allah hid his copy from them.
[22] When Uthman was called to account for his mismanagement as Caliph, one of the grievances against him was that he had destroyed variant readings of the Qur'an.
[5]: 156 Much later, Abd Allah ibn Masud's variant readings were discussed on equal terms with the Uthmanic text by al-Farra (d.
The seven often-repeated verses refer to al-Fatihah, the first sura of the Qur'an, which Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud is alleged to have denied.
"[24]In another narration, Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud was asked why he did not write al-Fatihah in his mushaf.
Abu Bakr al-Anbari explains this saying every raka’a (in prayers) starts with al-Fatiha and then another sura is recited.
Al-Nawawi says: "The Muslims have all agreed that al-Mu'awwidhatayn and al-Fatihah are part of the Qur'an and whoever denies this becomes a disbeliever and whatever is quoted from Ibn Masud in this regard is not true.
He walked into the mosque, where Uthman was speaking, but the Caliph broke off his speech to insult Abd Allah.
His servants removed Abd Allah so violently that they broke two of his ribs and, amid loud protests from Aisha, he had to be carried home.
The non-canonical Kufan reciter Sulaiman al-Aʽmash (d. 147 / 765), who continued the Ibn Masʿūd tradition in parts of his own reading, narrated that "I came to Kufa and the qirāʾa of Zayd was not amongst them, except as the reading ofʿAbd Allāh is amongst you today: no one recited it save one or two men".
Professor Shady Nasser notes that the isnad of ʿĀṣim back to the Prophet passes through two main branches.
Hamza learned his reading primarily from his fellow Kufans Ibn Abī Laylā, and Al-A'mash, insofar as the latter's was compatible with the Uthmanic rasm.
[34] Many of these differences were reported by Al-A'mash and appear in Ibn Abi Dawud's Kitab al Masahif.
[36] Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud died in Medina in 653[5]: 99 and was buried by the night at Al-Baqi'.
Al-Zubayr ibn al-Awam petitioned the Caliph to give Abd Allah's pension to his heirs "because they need it more than the treasury does."