Abu Sa'īd al-Khūdrī

Abū Saʿīd Saʿd ibn Mālik ibn Sinān al-Khazrajī al-Khudrī (Arabic: أبو سعيد سعد بن مالك بن سنان الخزرجي الخدري) was an early ally (Ansari) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and one of the younger companions of the prophet, as well as being a supporter of Hadith prohibition.

Too young to fight at the Battle of Uhud in 625 where his father Malik ibn Sinan fell, he participated in subsequent campaigns. Although he traveled to Syria once to visit the Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya, he resided in Medina all his life. Later, he is said to have participated with his fellow Medinans in the defense of their city against the Umayyad army at the Battle of al-Harrah in 64/683. He is said variously to have died in 63/682, 64/683, 65/684, or 74/693.

Despite his withdrawal from broader hadith culture, Abu Said is found to be one of the most prolific narrators of hadith quoted in sunni literature, with over 1170 narrations, making him the seventh most prolific Companion in the transmission of the hadith.

Shia Muslims do not categorically dismiss his narrations, but compare what he narrates with their own sources, as they believe his refusal to write hadiths to have been abused by many hadith narrators to fabricate many fanciful narrations, or to create justifications for practices not found from among the Ahl al-Bayt.