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Collections

People are far easier to remember in company. Each collection holds a group the Companions belonged to together — these are ways to browse and remember, never rankings.

• The Rightly Guided Caliphs

  الخلفاء الراشدون

  The four Companions who led the Muslim community in turn after the Prophet ﷺ died.

  4 companions →

• The Ten Given Glad Tidings

  العشرة المبشرون بالجنة

  Ten Companions named together in a well-known report as having been given glad tidings of Paradise.

  10 companions →

• The Early Muslims

  السابقون الأولون

  Those who accepted Islam in the first years, in Makkah, when doing so was dangerous and the community was very small.

  26 companions →

• The Muhajirun

  المهاجرون

  The Emigrants — those who left Makkah and migrated to Madinah for the sake of their faith.

  40 companions →

• The Ansar

  الأنصار

  The Helpers — the people of Madinah who received the emigrants and shared what they had with them.

  22 companions →

• Great Narrators and Teachers

  رواة الحديث

  Companions through whom a great deal of what later generations learned was transmitted.

  16 companions →

• Those Who Opposed Him First

  مَنْ أَسْلَمَ بَعْدَ عَدَاوَة

  Companions who fought, mocked or plotted against the Prophet ﷺ before accepting Islam.

  14 companions →

• The Mothers of the Believers

  أُمَّهَاتُ الْمُؤْمِنِين

  The wives of the Prophet ﷺ, whom the Qur'an calls mothers of the believers.

  11 companions →