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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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ]
Slave soldiers are known to have served in the first battle of Muhammad, [33] often called mawla-converts, and the African slave soldier Mihja has been referred to as the first Muslim who died in battle. [34] In the Battle of Badr, at least 24 mawla slave soldiers are said to have participated. [35]
In 1923, the Poole family was among hundreds of thousands of black families forming the First Great Migration leaving the oppressive and economically troubled South in search of safety and employment. [5] Elijah later recounted that before the age of 20, he had witnessed the lynchings of three black men by white people. He said, "I seen enough ...
He was one of the first men to accept Islam under the influence of Abu Bakr, [17]: 115 and is said to have been the fourth or fifth adult male convert. [ 14 ] : 76 Zubayr was one of the first fifteen emigrants to Abyssinia in 615, [ 17 ] : 146 until [ clarification needed ] he returned there in 616.
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]