Al-Miqdad has been a faithful and
brave man, and of the remarkable characters-ever chaste,
well-behaved, benevolent, patient in hardships and he is one of
the four figures whom the Paradise craves, as Allah's Messenger
(P. B. U.H) has said of him.
Al-Miqdad has witnessed the
Islamic wars until he was nicknamed as being the first knight in
Islam and he intimated the people of the Prophetic House and
didn't change his attitude towards them all his life. He even has
been among the people whom Amir Al-Muminin (P.B.U.H.) in the case
of Lady Zahra's burial (P.B.U.H.) who has been buried secretly
and her grave has been kept hidden until now.
He has got an honorable situation
as regards the novelty of appointing the caliphs after the
Allah's Messenger. (P.B.U.H.) in which he played a vital role in
promoting the notion of Al-Shura (common deliberation). It is
sufficient to take these stage leaders as specimen or patterns
for the number of the leaders of such kind is greater than these
lines can contain.
The following chapters will touch
upon some of their attitudes and situations and others, too,
according to what we choose for talking about.