Abu Ayyub al-Ansari

Abu Ayyub al - Ansari (Arabic أبو أيوب الأنصاري, DMG Abu Ayyub al - Ansari; * 576, † 669-674 in Constantinople Opel ) was one of the companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his standard-bearer; he was named after the biblical Job or Job. He is one of the Ansar. He survived Mohammed and eventually died before the walls of Constantinople Opel where he fell during the first unsuccessful siege of the city by the Muslims, or according to another tradition, returned during the siege to the camp and died of natural causes. For the siege, there are various datings ( 669, 674 ), handed down is that Ayyub said to have been old at his death over 90 years.

Grave and mosque

According to al-Tabari, the Arab commander ( and future caliph ) Yazid I. had threatened the Byzantines to destroy Christian churches in Syria if the just located outside the ancient city walls grave should be desecrated, prompting it to the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1203 /04 should have remained intact. His grave in today's Eyüp district of Istanbul, which was recovered according to legend, by wondrous dreams shortly after the Ottoman conquest of Aksemseddin, is now in the Eyup Sultan Mosque and is visited by numerous pilgrims.

Itemization

• Person (Islam)
• Born 576
• Died in the 7th century
• Man
• Person (Istanbul)