Khalid ibn Sa`id
Khalid ibn Sa ʿ īd (Arabic: خالد بن سعيد, DMG Halid ibn Sa ʿ īd; † 635 ) was one of the earliest followers of the Prophet Mohammed, who played an important role, particularly during the succession dispute after Muhammad's death. In Ibn Hisham Ibn Ishaq's biography of the Prophet of processing it is ranked in 36th place of the early Muslims, others consider him one of the first six Muslims.
Khalid was the son of Sa ʿ ibn al- ʿ īd AS, one of the most respected and wealthiest representatives of the Umayyad clan in pre-Islamic Mecca. After he had joined Muhammad, he gave this several slaves he had inherited from his father. To 615 he emigrated with other followers of Muhammad to Ethiopia from .. When in the year 627 Muhammad from Medina, is the same which is visiting Ethiopia widowed Umm Habiba, daughter of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb promoted, acted Khalid, who was her nearest relative, as her bridal guardian and she married Mohammed. The marriage was consummated only after the return Umm Ḥabības from the Ethiopian exile. The group of returnees, which also belonged to Khalid, met in June 628 in Medina while Muhammad was just with his companions on the expedition to Khaybar.
In the year 631, Khalid was sent by Mohammed to Yemen to collect the sadaqa there. A month after the death of the Prophet in July 632, he returned to Medina. At this time many of the Prophet's companions Abu Bakr had already sworn allegiance. As a member of the Umayyad, and thus the quraischitischen nobility of the descendants of Abd Manaf, Khalid was the rule of Abu Bakr, who was one of the less prestigious clan of Taim, extremely critical. It was narrated that he ʿ Alī ibn Abi Talib and Uthman ibn Affan violently rebuked for it, that they had not prevented the government takeover of Abū Bakr. Khalid refused for several months to make Abu Bakr the oath of allegiance. Only after him Abu Bakr had visited with the aim of reconciliation in his house, he was ready to take this step.
Later, an unsuccessful military campaign led in the north of the Arabian Peninsula, in Khalid 's troops left in the lurch, to him that Abu Bakr banished from Medina. Only after Umar ibn al - Khattab was the Caliph become, he was pardoned. He died in a further military action in Syria in the year 635