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Ashab

American  
[ahs-hahb] / ˈɑs hɑb /

plural noun

Islam.
Sahib singular
  1. those associating with Muhammad at any time in his life.


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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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The 2008 law, enacted by the SAD-BJP government, regulated the printing, publication, distribution and handling of the Guru Granth Sahib and barred its unauthorised printing or publication.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

A few days after Dutt was discharged, the shooting for Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam resumed as if nothing had happened.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2025

Clutching a box of sweets and a shiny blue-and-white toy airplane, Mr. Singh and his teenage daughter, Navpreet Kaur, bowed outside the place of worship, Talhan Sahib in the North Indian state of Punjab.

From New York Times Sep. 24, 2023

The Guru Granth Sahib, which is the sacred text of Sikhism, bears 40 verses or shabads of Ravidass.

From Seattle Times May 29, 2023

What more did she think Jawad Sahib would do?

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed

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