Sa'id ibn Zayd

Saʿīd bin Zayd bin ʿAmr bin Nufayl bin ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā al-ʿAdawī al-Qurashī (; 593-671), also known by his kunya Abūʾl-Aʿwar (Lit. 'Father of the One-Eyed'), was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a brother-in-law of Umar.

Sa'id has been described as a tall, hairy, dark-skinned man. His wife Fatima was also an early convert. This story of the ten to whom Paradise was promised was corroborated by another of the Ten, Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf.

Family He was the son of Zayd bin Amr, from the Adi clan of the Quraysh in Mecca, and of Fatima bint Ba'ja of the Khuza'a tribe. His father was murdered in 605.

Wives and children

Sa'id had over thirty children by at least eleven different women. Fatimah bint al-Khattab, also known as Ramla or as Umm Jamil, who was his cousin and a sister of Umar, the second Caliph. Abdulrahman the Elder, who left no male-line descendants. Julaysa bint Suwayd. Zayd, who left no male-line descendants. Abdullah the Elder, who left no male-line descendants. Atiqa. Umama bint al-Dujayj of the Ghassan tribe. Abdulrahman the Younger, who left no male-line descendants. Umar the Younger, who left no male-line descendants. Umm Musa. Umm al-Hasan. Hamza bint Qays of the Muharib ibn Fihr clan of the Quraysh. Muhammad. Ibrahim the Younger. Abdullah the Younger.. Umm Habib the Elder. Umm al-Hasan the Younger. Umm Zayd the Elder. Umm Salama. Umm Habib the Younger. Umm Sa'id the Elder, who died in her father's lifetime. Umm Zayd. Umm al-Aswad from the Taghlib tribe. Amr the Younger. al-Aswad. Dumkh bint al-Asbagh of the Kalb tribe. Amr the Elder. Talha, who died in his father's lifetime and who left no male-line descendants. Zujla. Bint Qurba, also of the Taghlib tribe. Ibrahim. Hafsa Umm Khalid, a concubine. Khalid. Umm Khalid, who died in her father's lifetime. Umm al-Numan. Umm Bashir bint Abi Mas'ud al-Ansari. Umm Zayd the Elder. A woman from the Tayy tribe. Umm Zayd the Younger, wife of al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd. Another Concubine. Aisha. Zaynab. Umm Abdul-Hawla. Umm Salih.