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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 190,843 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Miqdad ibn Aswad is the 394th most popular companion (up from 4,976th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Yemen (down from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Yemeni Companion.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Miqdad ibn Aswad ranks 394 out of 673Before him are Anne Sophie Reventlow, Ealhswith, Amestris, Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Margaret of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary, and Margaret of France, Queen of England. After him are Sophie, Countess of Wessex, Violant of Bar, Natalia Pushkina, Sitre, Hemma, and Henry, son of Robert I of Burgundy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 589, Miqdad ibn Aswad ranks 4Before him are Sawda bint Zamʿa, Ja'far ibn Abi Talib, and Bavo of Ghent.  Among people deceased in 653, Miqdad ibn Aswad ranks 3Before 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 6 out of 21Before him are Uwais al-Qarani (594), Ali Abdullah Saleh (1947), Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (1945), Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (600), and Malik al-Ashtar (585). After him are Mukesh Ambani (1957), Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (1869), Muhammad al-Badr (1926), Tawakkol Karman (1979), Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani (893), and Ahmad bin Yahya (1891).

Among COMPANIONS In Yemen

Among companions born in Yemen, Miqdad ibn Aswad ranks 1