Worthy Traits & A Respected Leader

Hazrat Sa‘d (ra) bin Ubadah was one of the twelve leaders appointed on the occasion of the second Bai‘at at Aqabah.

(Al-Tabaqaat-ul-Kubra li ibn Sa‘d, Vol. 3, p. 461, Sa‘d bin Ubadah, Dar-ul-Kutub al Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 1990)

Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad Sahib (ra) writes the following about him in Sirat Khatamun-Nabiyyin:

“He was from the Banu Sa‘idah dynasty of the Khazraj tribe and was the chieftain of the entire Khazraj tribe. In the blessed era of the Holy Prophet (sa), he was counted among the most eminent of the Ansar. So much so that after the demise of the Holy Prophet (sa), some of the Ansar held him worthy of caliphate (i.e., his name was proposed from among the Ansar) … He passed away during the caliphate of Hazrat Umar (ra).”

(Sirat Khatamun-Nabiyyin, Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad (ra), p. 230)

Hazrat Sa‘d (ra) bin Ubadah, Munzir (ra) bin Amr and Abu Dujana (ra) accepted Islam, all of them broke the idols of their tribe Banu Sa‘idah.

(Al-Tabaqaat-ul-Kubra li ibn Sa‘d, Vol. 3, p. 461, Sa‘d bin Ubadah, Darul-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 1990)