Anas ibn Malik
E612997
Anas ibn Malik was a prominent companion of the Prophet Muhammad and a renowned transmitter of hadith in early Islamic history.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anas ibn Malik canonical | 15 |
| Anas ibn Malik ibn al‑Nadr al‑Khazraji al‑Ansari | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6531580 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Anas ibn Malik Context triple: [Abu Hurayrah, narratedBy, Anas ibn Malik]
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A.
Ibn Umar
Ibn Umar was a prominent early Muslim scholar and companion of the Prophet Muhammad, renowned for his piety, meticulous adherence to prophetic traditions, and extensive hadith transmission.
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B.
Ali ibn Umar
Ali ibn Umar was a medieval Idrisid ruler in present-day Morocco, known for his role in the early Islamic governance of the Maghreb.
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C.
Abd Allah ibn Masʿud
Abd Allah ibn Masʿud was a prominent early companion of the Prophet Muhammad renowned for his deep knowledge of the Qur’an, jurisprudence, and teaching, which strongly influenced the development of Islamic scholarship in Iraq.
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D.
Abu Hurayrah
Abu Hurayrah was a prominent companion of the Prophet Muhammad renowned as one of the most prolific narrators of hadith in Islamic tradition.
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E.
Abd Allah ibn Abbas
Abd Allah ibn Abbas was a prominent early Islamic scholar and companion of the Prophet Muhammad, renowned for his expertise in Quranic exegesis and jurisprudence.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Anas ibn Malik Target entity description: Anas ibn Malik was a prominent companion of the Prophet Muhammad and a renowned transmitter of hadith in early Islamic history.
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A.
Ibn Umar
Ibn Umar was a prominent early Muslim scholar and companion of the Prophet Muhammad, renowned for his piety, meticulous adherence to prophetic traditions, and extensive hadith transmission.
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B.
Ali ibn Umar
Ali ibn Umar was a medieval Idrisid ruler in present-day Morocco, known for his role in the early Islamic governance of the Maghreb.
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C.
Abd Allah ibn Masʿud
Abd Allah ibn Masʿud was a prominent early companion of the Prophet Muhammad renowned for his deep knowledge of the Qur’an, jurisprudence, and teaching, which strongly influenced the development of Islamic scholarship in Iraq.
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D.
Abu Hurayrah
Abu Hurayrah was a prominent companion of the Prophet Muhammad renowned as one of the most prolific narrators of hadith in Islamic tradition.
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E.
Abd Allah ibn Abbas
Abd Allah ibn Abbas was a prominent early Islamic scholar and companion of the Prophet Muhammad, renowned for his expertise in Quranic exegesis and jurisprudence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Muslim
ⓘ
Sahabi ⓘ hadith narrator ⓘ historical person ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity |
Basra
ⓘ
Medina ⓘ |
| birthDate |
10 BH
ⓘ
c. 612 CE ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Medina
ⓘ
Yathrib ⓘ |
| companionOf |
Prophet Muhammad
ⓘ
linked to:
Muhammad
|
| deathDate |
93 AH
ⓘ
c. 709 CE ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Basra ⓘ |
| fullName |
Anas ibn Malik ibn al‑Nadr al‑Khazraji al‑Ansari
ⓘ
linked to:
Anas ibn Malik
|
| group | Ansar ⓘ |
| hadithNarrationsCount | among the companions with the highest number of narrations ⓘ |
| honorific | may Allah be pleased with him ⓘ |
| knownFor |
close companionship with Prophet Muhammad
ⓘ
large number of students ⓘ longevity among the companions ⓘ transmission of hadith ⓘ |
| kunya | Abu Hamza ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Jami al‑Tirmidhi
ⓘ
linked to:
Jami al-Tirmidhi
Sahih Muslim ⓘ Sahih al‑Bukhari ⓘ
linked to:
Sahih al-Bukhari
Sunan Abi Dawud ⓘ
linked to:
Sunan Abu Dawud
Sunan Ibn Majah ⓘ Sunan al‑Nasa’i ⓘ
linked to:
Sunan al-Nasa’i
|
| migration | lived in Basra after the Prophet’s death ⓘ |
| mother | Umm Sulaym bint Milhan ⓘ |
| name | Anas ibn Malik ⓘ |
| narratedFrom |
Abu Bakr
ⓘ
linked to:
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq
Abu Talha al‑Ansari ⓘ Ali ibn Abi Talib ⓘ Prophet Muhammad ⓘ
linked to:
Muhammad
Umar ibn al‑Khattab ⓘ
linked to:
Umar ibn al-Khattab
Uthman ibn Affan ⓘ
linked to:
Caliph Uthman ibn Affan
his mother Umm Sulaym ⓘ
linked to:
Umm Sulaym bint Milhan
|
| nationality |
Arab
ⓘ
linked to:
Arabs
|
| participatedIn | some battles with Prophet Muhammad ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| role | personal servant of Prophet Muhammad ⓘ |
| served |
Prophet Muhammad
ⓘ
linked to:
Muhammad
|
| statusInHadith | reliable narrator ⓘ |
| stepfather | Abu Talha al‑Ansari ⓘ |
| teacherOf |
Abu Hurayra’s students generation
ⓘ
Abu Qilaba ⓘ Abu Salama ibn Abd al‑Rahman ⓘ
linked to:
Abu Salama ibn Abd al-Asad
Ibn Shihab al‑Zuhri ⓘ
linked to:
Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri
Ibn Sirin ⓘ Qatada ibn Di‘ama ⓘ Thabit al‑Bunani ⓘ al‑Hasan al‑Basri ⓘ
linked to:
Hasan al-Basri
|
| tribe | Banu Khazraj ⓘ |
| yearsOfService | about ten years ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Anas ibn Malik Description of subject: Anas ibn Malik was a prominent companion of the Prophet Muhammad and a renowned transmitter of hadith in early Islamic history.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Anas ibn Malik