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Miqdad ibn Aswad

589 - 653

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Al-Miqdad ibn Amr al-Bahrani (Arabic: المقداد بن عمرو ٱلْبَهْرَانِيّ, romanized: al-Miqdād ibn ʿAmr al-Bahrānī), better known as al-Miqdad ibn al-Aswad al-Kindi (Arabic: المقداد بن الأسود ٱلْكِنْدِيّ, romanized: al-Miqdād ibn al-Aswad al-Kindī) or simply Miqdad, was one of the companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. His kunya was Abu Ma'bad (Arabic: أبو معبد). Miqdad was born in Eastern Arabia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miqdad ibn Aswad has received more than 203,882 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Miqdad ibn Aswad is the 357th most popular companion (up from 394th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Yemen (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Yemeni Companion.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Miqdad ibn Aswad ranks 357 out of 784. Before him are Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, Joan of Navarre, Queen of England, Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta, Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany, Gunilla Bielke, and Cornelia. After him are Maria Francisca of Savoy, Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary, Empress Teimei, Pat Nixon, Meketaten, and Irene Doukaina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 589, Miqdad ibn Aswad ranks 4. Before him are Sawda bint Zamʿa, Ja'far ibn Abi Talib, and Bavo of Ghent. After him is Muhammad ibn Maslamah. Among people deceased in 653, Miqdad ibn Aswad ranks 3. Before him are Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, and Chindasuinth. After him are Abu Darda, Rodoald, Honorius of Canterbury, Sigeberht the Little, Theodelap of Spoleto, and Paul II of Constantinople.

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In Yemen

Among people born in Yemen, Miqdad ibn Aswad ranks 8 out of 35. Before him are Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (1945), Uwais al-Qarani (594), Abdullah ibn Saba' (700), Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (600), Malik al-Ashtar (585), and Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (1908). After him are Rashad al-Alimi (1954), Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (1869), Mukesh Ambani (1957), Muhammad al-Badr (1926), Wahb ibn Munabbih (655), and Tawakkol Karman (1979).

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Among COMPANIONS In Yemen

Among companions born in Yemen, Miqdad ibn Aswad ranks 1. 

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