Ashab
Americanplural noun
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Sahib
singular
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Several of those were claimed by a new group calling itself Harakat Ashab al-Yamin.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
An Islamist group with possible links to Iran - Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya - claimed responsibility for the attack.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
The social media video appeared to have been posted by Iran-linked Islamist group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
Iran-aligned group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya - The Islamic Movement of the People of the Right Hand - made an unsubstantiated claim of responsibility for the attack on its Telegram channel.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
Ashab, or “comrades,” are those who are bound by oath to an alliance offensive and defensive: they intermarry, and are therefore closely connected.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
It also opposed plans to assign unique identification numbers to physical copies of the Guru Granth Sahib and maintain a central register, saying such decisions should not rest with the government.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
In California Ravidassia temples, the Guru Granth Sahib is the focal point of the prayer hall.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2023
Police officials later claimed that they had been unable to stop the crowd as they were carrying a copy of the Guru Granth Sahib - the holy book venerated by Sikhs - as a shield.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2023
Then I’ll get up and listen to Japji Sahib, which is a morning prayer, and then I have my chai.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
After all the people he had hurt, after the generations this family had haunted, we helped bring Jawad Sahib and his father to justice.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
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