Bashīr b. Saʿd (d. c. 12/633) was one of the Anṣār and a Companion of the prophet Muḥammad. He belonged to a branch of the Khazraj-one of the two main Arab tribes of Medina, the Aws being the other-called al-Ḥārith b. al-Khazraj, and, more precisely, to a subdivision of the Ḥārith called Mālik al-Agharr (Caskel, 1:188). Bashīr, who was one of the few who were literate before Islam (Ibn Saʿd, 3:531), became famous for his role in the meeting that was held