Introduction

Hazrat Bishr bin Bara bin Ma‘rur (ra) belonged to the Banu Ubaid bin Adiyy of the Khazraj tribe of the Ansar. According to another narration, he belonged to Banu Salama; these are two different narrations.

(al-Sirat al-Nabawiyyah li Ibn Hisham, p. 471, al-Ansar wa man ma’ahum, Dar-ul-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 2001) (Usdul Ghabah, Vol. 1, p. 380, Bishr bin al-Bara (ra), Dar-ul-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 2008)

Hazrat Bishr’s (ra) father’s name was Hazrat Bara bin Ma‘rur (ra) and the name of his mother was Khulaida bint Qais.

(al-Tabaqaat-ul-Kubra li ibn Sa‘d, Vol. 3, p. 291, Bishr bin al-Bara (ra), Dar Ihyaa al-Turath al-Arabi, Beirut, 1996)