I was watching the Omar رضي الله عنه series ( life of omar ) and one of the sahabah they portray is abu huzaifa رضي الله عنه. he is not someone I heard of much despite according to the program him being one of the earliest muslims, why is this? or does he go by another name perhaps which we may know him by?
also i read the he got emotional after seeing his father utbah bin rabieeah killed and questioned rasoolullah
as why his uncles and family members where spared but not the others. is this true and if so why. alot of the mushriks like ummaya bin khalaf and utbah himself didnt actually want to fight just like al abbas رضي الله عنه and other hashimi mushriks at the time so why did rasoolullah
save his own, there must be more to it as he is not one to do favours for his family only as we all know the famous hadith about if faatima رضي الله عنه was to steal he will apply the hadood on her too.

