Anas bin An-Nadr bin Dumadam Al-Ansaari Al-Najaari Al-Khazraji was the paternal uncle of Anas bin Maalik RA. He embraced Islam after Rasulullah Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam reached Madinah. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam praised him, for it has reached us in a tradition that his sister broke the front tooth of a female slave. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam ordered the punishment. Anas RA said: “No, by Allah, don’t break her tooth, O Messenger of Allah”. The people agreed and the discord was settled by the payment of monetary compensation (Diyah Al-Kesraa) for the breakage. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam said: “Truly who worships Allah, who if he swears (an oath) by Allah, He accepts”.

Absent from the Battle of Badr, Anas RA said: “O Messenger of Allah, I was absent from the first battle in which polytheists were killed, By Allah, for truly Allah is my witness, the dead polytheists Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam what Allah did”. On the day of the Battle of Uhud, when the Muslims were exposed, Anas RA said: “O Lord, truly I apologise to you for what they did (meaning the Muslims) and I discharge to you for what came of it by them (meaning the polytheists)”. He received Sa’ad bin Mu’aadth and said: “O Sa’ad, this is Paradise and the Lord of Humankind; indeed I found a good odour before Uhud”.

He was martyred, (Allah be pleased with him), and there were found (on him) eighty and some, of what was between blows by sword, stabs by spear, or strikes by arrow; and what is similar to them, from the mutilation of him by the polytheists, as revenge for what had been done to them, until he was unrecognisable by anyone except his sister, Al-Rubi’i, who knew him from his fingertips. He was of those whom the words of Allah, the Almighty, were revealed: {among the believers are men who have been true to their covenant with Allah …}, (The Clans, Chapter 33, p.o. Verse 23).