The Most Famous
COMPANIONS from Iraq
This page contains a list of the greatest Iraqi Companions. The pantheon dataset contains 673 Companions, 3 of which were born in Iraq. This makes Iraq the birth place of the 31st most number of Companions behind Norway and Argentina.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iraqi Companions of all time. This list of famous Iraqi Companions is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Al-Muqtadi (1056 - 1094)
With an HPI of 57.45, Al-Muqtadi is the most famous Iraqi Companion. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
Abū'l-Qasim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muhammad ibn al-Qa'im (Arabic: أبو القاسم عبد الله بن محمد بن القائم) better known by his regnal name al-Muqtadi (Arabic: المقتدي 'the follower'; 1056 – February 1094) was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 1075 to 1094. He succeeded his grandfather caliph al-Qa'im in 1075 as the twenty-seventh Abbasid caliph.
2. Adi ibn Hatim (550 - 700)
With an HPI of 52.90, Adi ibn Hatim is the 2nd most famous Iraqi Companion. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Adi ibn Hatim al-Tai (Arabic: عدي بن حاتم الطائي, romanized: ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim al-Ṭāʾī) was a leader of the Arab tribe of Tayy, and one of the companions of Muhammad. He was the son of the poet Hatim al-Tai. Adi remained antagonistic to Islam for about twenty years until he converted to Islam in 630 (9th year of Hijri).
3. Rana Hussein (1969 - )
With an HPI of 41.28, Rana Hussein is the 3rd most famous Iraqi Companion. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Rana Saddam Hussein (Arabic: رنا صدام حسين) (born July 25, 1969) is the second-eldest daughter of the former President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein and his first wife, Sajida Talfah. Her older sister is Raghad and younger sister is Hala Hussein.
Pantheon has 3 people classified as companions born between 550 and 1969. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living companions include Rana Hussein. The most famous deceased companions include Al-Muqtadi and Adi ibn Hatim. As of April 2022, 1 new companions have been added to Pantheon including Rana Hussein.
