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Bilal confronts Safwan during the conquest of Mecca and asks why he had to kill Ghufaira. It was then revealed that Ghufaira was alive. It was then revealed that Ghufaira was alive. Safwan reiterates Bilal's words, that a man is judged by his actions, and says that freeing Ghufaira will be his one act of morality.
Safwan married at least five times. Barza bint Masud, from the ruling family of the Thaqif tribe in Ta'if. She was the daughter of his father's sister and the mother of his children, Abdullah "the Elder", Hisham ibn Safwan, Umayya ibn Safwan, and Umm Habib bint Safwan. [3]: 371
Bilal ibn Rabah was born in Mecca in the Hejaz in the year 580. [5] There are differing accounts to the racial identity of his father according to historians. One account states that his father was an Abyssinian prisoner of war who had been given the name of Rabah, in Arabic meaning profitable, he had been handed over as a slave to the Quraishi Arab clan of Banu Jumah, this account is highly ...
He subjected his slave Bilal ibn Rabah to torture for having adopted Islam. He forced Bilal to lie on hot desert sand and pinned him down with a heavy stone on his chest. When Bilal still refused to denounce Islam, a heavy person was to jump on the stone. Bilal kept repeating, "Ahad! Ahad!" (One (God)! One (God)!) [2]
Umayya would put a rope around Bilal's neck and drag him in the streets. In the burning hot desert heat, Umayya used to wrap Bilal in raw cow's hide. Due to the great stench of rotting hide, Bilal would find it difficult to breathe. Umayya would also chain Bilal heavily, lay him on hot sand, and put heavy stones on him. [4]
Safwan ibn al-Mu'attal belonged to the Dhakwan clan of the large Banu Sulaym tribe. [1] His year of birth is not recorded in the sources. [2] Most of the Sulaym inhabited the al-Harrah region and many members of the Dhakwan lived in the city of Mecca where they maintained close ties with the Quraysh; Safwan was an exception among the Dhakwan and lived in Medina. [1]
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