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  2. Bilal ibn Rabah - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Early Muslims - Wikipedia

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    The first person who professed Islam was his wife, Khadija bint Khuwaylid. The identity of the second male Muslim, after Muhammad himself, is nevertheless disputed largely along sectarian lines, as Shia and some Sunni sources identify him as the first Shia imam Ali ibn Abi Talib , a child at the time, who grew up in the household of his cousin ...

  4. Timeline of early Islamic history - Wikipedia

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    First Muslim Female convert: Khadija [5] 610 [5] When Muhammad reported his first revelation from the Angel Gabriel , Khadija was the first female and first person to convert to Islam. However, Shia Muslims claim Ali was the first to convert to Islam. Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq [5] 3. First Muslim Male convert: Ali Ibn Abi Talib [6] 610 [6]

  5. Nabil Abdulrashid - Wikipedia

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    In December 2016, he appeared on two-part BBC Two documentary Muslims Like Us. [28] In May 2020, Abdulrashid appeared on Britain's Got Talent and got a Golden Buzzer from Alesha Dixon which took him straight to the semi-final. In October, after winning the judges' vote, he advanced to the final, where he finished in fourth place.

  6. Yakub (Nation of Islam) - Wikipedia

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    A piece of this destroyed moon became the Earth, which was then populated by a community of surviving, morally righteous black people, some of whom settled in the city of Mecca. [1] Yakub was born a short distance outside the city, and was among the third of original black people who were discontented with life in this society. [2]

  7. Mus'ab ibn Umayr - Wikipedia

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    The Muslims also brought seventy camels and two horses, meaning that they either had to walk or fit three to four men per camel. [12] However, many early Muslim sources indicate that no serious fighting was expected, [ 13 ] and the future Caliph Uthman stayed behind to care for his sick wife Ruqayyah , the daughter of Muhammad. [ 14 ]

  8. He’s the first Black American to compose a full opera. It’s ...

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    The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.

  9. Twelve Imams - Wikipedia

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    According to Twelvers, there is at all times an Imam of the era who is the divinely appointed authority on all matters of faith and law in the Muslim community. Ali , a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, was the first of the Twelve Imams, and, in the Twelvers view, the rightful successor to Muhammad , followed by male descendants of Muhammad ...