Government Jobs in Madinah al-Nabi based on Rijali’s Reports

There is some information about the various jobs of the companions in the books of al-Rijal. Recognition and analysis of this information can acquaint us with aspects of the economic system of the early Islamic Arab society. Numerous studies can be found from ancient times to modern times, in each of which attention to this matter and analyses based on it have been presented from the early history of Islam. The subject of the present study is to recognize government jobs in Madina al-Nabi. By extracting the data contained in historical and Rijal sources, it is tried to categorize the reports related to government jobs in the Medina of the era of the Prophet, and examine the companions’ rate of employment to each of those jobs. On this basis, in the present study, these questions will be answered: first, can we find objective and reliable pieces of evidence about jobs in the early Islamic government by reviewing historical sources, especially Rijal books; second, to what extent can the links between these reports themselves help us to objectively classify these jobs; third, how much can the information about each job indicate their relationship to each other or their position in the early Islamic system of government.