Miqdad Ibn Aswad
Miqdad ibn al-Aswad al-Kindi ( Arabic : ) was a companion of the Prophet of Islam Mohammed.
Biography
Originally, the young Syrian's name was Al Miqdad QKindi (referring to the tribe Qkindiyounes). He came from a family of merchants around the country to do business. His family, however, was massacred one night by a group of robbers who terrorized Syria at the time, and it was the only one to escape. Having spent days wandering in the desert, he came to Damascus, where he was rescued by a black slave who had been freed. He then raised as his own son, so he was called Ibn Al Aswad (which means son of the black Arabic surnames did not exist at the time in Arab countries). He quickly embraced religion and became a close associate of the Prophet Muhammad , with whom he fought people who rose up against the emergence of Islam. His faith in Islam was unshakable, so much that he retired a long time in isolated areas of Syria in order to "enlighten" people, and thus convert to Islam. He died old, at the age of 90.
His descendants does not follow the same path. We know nothing about the lives of descendants of Miqdad ibn Aswad until 1159, the birth of al-Aswad al Miqdad, named by his parents in reference to an ancestor they had heard. The name itself has been poorly reported. Born in Aleppo, Shiite Muslim parents, Al Miqdad lived in a merchant family circle, which does not suit him too by the writings he left to his descendants. He aspired to more, wanted to travel, go further than Syria where he was born. But his parents wanted above all to take over all business as his ancestors before him. His life seemed dull and monotonous until a tragedy changed his life in 1180 when his father his mother and brother were murdered by a man who was an employee other than the father Al Miqdad had referred to having caught stealing supplies from the store. What saved Al Miqdad is that during the evening when her family was slaughtered, it was released outside the city to drink wine in secret. It must be said that despite the education he had enjoyed, he has never been a fervent believer. The loss of his family was a real shock to him. He tried to end her life twice, but without success. The gnawing guilt every day, he decided to become a soldier in the army of Malik al-Afdhal, to escape his past. Very soon he became a famous archer in all of Syria. Later, he traveled to Egypt where he had been recommended by his superiors to train archers of Saladin. In 1188, a year before the Third Crusade, he befriended a woman from Asia, which was very rare at the time. She supposedly gave her two children, Ghita and Sayf. His feats of arms during the third crusade in the clan were legendary Buckwheat like the Crusaders. It is said that all he felled more than 243 enemy soldiers. He died in 1191 during the siege of Saint Jean D'Acre, at the age of 32 years.
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