Usama ibn Zayd

Usāma ibn Zayd
أُسَامَة بن زَيْد
Personal
Bornc. 615–618
Diedc. 680 [1]
ReligionIslam
Parent(s)Zayd ibn Harithah (father)
Umm Ayman (mother)
Known forcompanion of Muhammad
Relations
Military service
RankMilitary commander to Muhammad (632)
Battles/wars
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Usāma ibn Zayd (Arabic: أُسَامَة بن زَيْد) was an early Muslim and companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

He was the son of Zayd ibn Harithah, Muhammad's adopted son, and Umm Ayman (Barakah), a servant of Muhammad.[2]

Muhammad appointed Usama ibn Zayd as the commander of an expeditionary force which was to invade the region of Balqa in the Byzantine Empire to avenge the Muslim defeat at the Battle of Mu'tah, in which Usama's father and Muhammad's adopted son, Zayd ibn Harithah, had been killed.[3] This campaign was known as the Expedition of Usama bin Zayd. Usama's campaign was successful and his army was the first Muslim force to successfully invade and raid Byzantine territory, thus paving the way for the subsequent Muslim conquest of the Levant and Muslim conquest of Egypt.

  1. ^ Muhammad al-Jarir al-Tabari, Al-Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk. Translated by Ella Landau-Tasseron (1998). Volume 39: Biographies of the Companions and Their Successors (Albany: State University of New York Press), 65.
  2. ^ Baladhuri, vol.1, p. 96
  3. ^ Razwy, Sayed Ali Asgher. A Restatement of the History of Islam & Muslims. p. 283.

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