Anas ibn Malik

Anas ibn Mālik ibn Naḍr al-Khazrajī al-Anṣārī (; 612 712) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was nicknamed Khadim al-Nabi (lit. Servant of the Prophet) for serving Muhammad for ten years.

Biography

Anas ibn Malik, a member of the Najjar clan of the Khazraj tribe of Yathrib, was born in 612, ten years before the Hijrah. Anas ibn Malik's father was Malik ibn Nadr and his mother was Umm Sulaym. His father, Malik ibn Nadr was a non-Muslim and was angry with his mother, Umm Sulaym for her conversion to Islam. Malik bin Nadr went to Damascus and died there. She remarried to a new convert, Abu Talha al-Ansari. Anas's half-brother from this marriage was Abdullah ibn Abi Talha.

When Muhammad arrived in Medina in 622, Anas's mother presented him to Muhammad as a servant to him.

Tomb

The tomb of Anas ibn Malik is located 20 minutes away from Basra's city center. It was damaged in 2016 during the war in Iraq and has not yet been reconstructed by the Iraqi government.

However, the shrine was destroyed with explosive devices. The mosque and shrine is heavily damaged and walls stained with vandalism. The complex is still visited by Muslims, but the shrine doors have been sealed with concrete preventing pilgrims from entering and the deceased from being visited.