Ḥaḍrat ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd, may Allah be pleased with him (d. 32 AH)

Answer

He is regarded as the most excellent of the Companions after the Rightly-Guided Caliphs, among the very first [to embrace Islam] (as-sābiqūn al-awwalūn) and among the great participants at Badr; in that battle it was by his sword that Abū Jahl was sent to Hell.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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