Introduction

His name was Mu‘az and the name of his father was Jabal bin Amr and his mother was Hind bint Sahl, who belonged to the Banu Raba‘ah branch of the Juhaynah tribe.

Hazrat Mu‘az (ra) bin Jabal’s title was Abdur-Rahman and he belonged to the Uday bin Sa‘d bin Ali branch of the Khazraj tribe. The author of Siyar-us-Sahabah [life of the companions] writes that Sa‘d bin Ali had two sons, Salama and Uday. Banu Salama is the progeny of Salama.

During the era of Islam, only two individuals from the progeny of Uday bin Sa‘d survived; they were Hazrat Mu‘az (ra) and his son, Abdur-Rahman. The houses of Banu Uday were situated in the neighbourhood of Banu Salama.