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ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf

Personnalité historique

ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf (c. 43 BC-32 AH / 580-652), one of the first eight converts and the ten to whom Paradise was announced. A prosperous and very generous trader, he arbitrated the council which designated ʿUthmān as caliph. Adh-Dhahabī sees in him the model of the “grateful rich”.