Every Companion Named in Usd al-Ghaba

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وَالسَّابِقُونَ الْأَوَّلُونَ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَالْأَنْصَارِ وَالَّذِينَ اتَّبَعُوهُم بِإِحْسَانٍ رَّضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا عَنْهُAnd the first forerunners among the Muhajirun (مهاجرون) and the Ansar (أنصار), and those who followed them with excellence: God is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him. al-Tawba 9:100

Ibn al-Athir (ابن الأثير) رحمه الله wrote Usd al-Ghaba fi Ma'rifat al-Sahaba (أسد الغابة في معرفة الصحابة) to gather into one book every companion (صحابي) of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (محمد) that the earlier compilers had recorded. He worked from four earlier collections and reconciled them, keeping their disagreements visible rather than smoothing them away.

Islamic Divine System (IDS) publishes here the one thing such a book is hardest to see whole: the roll itself. Every name, in the order the book gives it, carrying its printed entry number.