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As'ad ibn Zurara
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “among the ansar sahaba”. Today it says “depicted as clean”.
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As‘ad ibn Zurarah ibn ‘Ads was among the Ansar Sahaba (companions) of Muhammad . He was from the Banu Khazraj .1
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among the ansar sahaba
Now
depicted as clean
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