The Authentic Biography of Bilal Bin Rabah - Mohammad Thajammul Hussain Manna

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The Authentic
Biography of Bilal bin
Rabah
-The First Mu’adhdhin
of Islam
-by Mohammed Thajammul Hussain

Manna
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Introduction
All Praises and Thanks be to Allah and
peace and salutations be upon the last and
final Messenger Muhammad ‫ﷺ‬, his blessed
household and his companions and all
those who follow him till the Day of
Judgement.
This is a small booklet on the Biography of
the noble companion Bilal bin Rabah
compiled with an intention to
gather for the Muslim reader an authentic
compendium of narrations related to this
very companion.
It is indeed disappointing that in the
absence of authentically established
materials, Muslims are turning to false
narratives and fictionally designed movies
on the Seerah (biography) of the
companion Bilal bin Rabah, disregarding
the ‘Islamic Principles’ of verifying
narrations or pieces of information before
spreading them.
This book is not an emotional narrative of
the noble Sahabi’s (companion of the
Prophet) life, rather I’ve tried to gather as
many authentic reports as possible related
to Bilal’s life alongside the Messenger of
Allah ‫ﷺ‬. It is up to the responsible reader
to sit with a student of knowledge and
derive benefits from the Ahadith (Hadiths)
as and when necessary In Sha Allah in
case he doesn’t comprehend an issue.
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At times I have written summarized
paragraphs to chalk out a background of
the events surrounding a Hadith about
Bilal’s role in order to assist the readers’
flow. I have tried to keep the ‘summaries’
as little as possible to avoid drifting away
from the main ‘protagonist’ of this book,
our own beloved Bilal bin Rabah
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Contents
Can we share quotes and stories 12
of the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬and Sahaba
(companions) from unknown
sources without knowing
their authenticity?
Arabia Before Islam 17
The Birth of Prophet Muhammad 19

‫ ﷺ‬-His Childhood And Youth
Bilal bin Rabah Before Islam 20
The First Revelation Upon The 20

Prophet Muhammad ‫ﷺ‬
The Meeting with Waraqa bin 21

Noufal
The Foremost People to Accept 22

Islam
The Beginning of Open Da’wah 24
‘Amr bin ‘Abasah’s Experience of 25

The Tense Situation In Makkah
And Bilal Being One of The Firsts
To Accept Islam
The People Who Publicly 27

Declared Their Islam And Bilal’s
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Steadfastness While Being
Tortured
Bilal bin Rabah Is Freed From 29

Slavery By Abu Bakr
The Polytheists Did Not Want 31

Prophet Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬To Sit
With The Downtrodden of The
Society
Migration to Abyssinia (Al- 36

Habsha)
The Testing Days Bilal Spent 37

With The Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺ‬
During The Social Boycott By The
Pagans of Makkah
Al-Isra wal-Mi’raj 39
The Station of Bilal In Paradise 41
Pledges of Aqabah 43
The Hijrah of Bilal 45
The Institution of The Adhan 47
The Virtue of Calling Out The 54

Adhan
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Virtue of Answering The 55
Mu’adhdhin With Certainty of
Imaan
Bilal Falls Ill In Madinah 56
Bilal-The Personal Attendant of 60

The Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
Bilal Walking Alongside The 65

Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
Permission To Fight 66
Sa’d bin Mu’adh ‫ ﷺ‬Threatens The 67

Quraish And Umaiyya bin Khalaf
The Battle of Badr 71
The End of Umaiyya bin Khalaf- 74

The One Who Had Tortured Bilal
bin Rabah
The Jihad of Bilal Alongside The 79

Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺ‬
Bilal Overslept And The Muslims 80

Missed Their Fajr
Bilal With The Messenger of Allah 81

‫ ﷺ‬On Eid
Bilal During The Conquest of 82

Makkah
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Virtues of The ‘Ajamis Who 83
Accepted Islam Prior To The
Chief of The Best Arab Tribe
Allah’s Messenger ‫ ﷺ‬Prays Inside 85

The Ka’bah
Bilal’s Hajj With The Messenger 87

of Allah ‫ﷺ‬
Bilal Was Close To The Prophet 88

Even In The Final Illness of The
Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
The Journey To Allah, Last Days 89

of The Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
Umar ibn Al-Khattab Praising 92

Bilal bin Rabah
Ahadith Narrated by Bilal 93
Bilal Leaves For Ash-Shaam After 94

The Death of Prophet
Muhammad ‫ﷺ‬
Appendices To The Authentic 95

Biography of Bilal bin Rabah
The False Story of Bilal Giving 96

Adhan In Madinah A Long Time
After The Death of Prophet
Muhammad ‫ﷺ‬
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Did Abu Dharr Al-Ghifari Insult 99
Bilal bin Rabah?
Did Allah order the sun not to 102

rise until Bilal gives the call to
Adhan?
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Can we share quotes and stories
of the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬and Sahaba
(companions) from unknown
sources without knowing
their authenticity?
Allah says in The Quran (49:6):
‫يا أَيها ا َّلذين آم ُنوا ِإن جا َءكُم فاسق ِبنَ َبٍأ‬

‫فَتَبَيَّ ُنوا أَنٍ ت ُِصيبُوا قَو ًما ِبجَهالَة فت ُص ِب ُحوا عَلى ما‬
ٍَ‫فَعلت ُمٍ نادِمِ ين‬
O you who have believed, if there comes to
you a disobedient one with information,
investigate, lest you harm a people out of
ignorance and become, over what you have
done, regretful.
1. Allah instructs the Muslims to verify
every information that they get before
spreading it to others. (Al-Quran 49:6)
2. With regards to sharing false Ahadith of
the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬, the Messenger of Allah said:
“Do not lie upon me; indeed whoever lies
upon me will enter the Fire“. 1
3. The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬clarified in many Ahadith
that he hated the one who lies. ‘A’ishah
(‫ )رضي للاه عنها‬said: No characteristic was
1 Sahih Muslim 1, also in Sahih Al-Bukhari.
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more hateful to the Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺ‬
than lying.2
4. A Muslim should beware of lying even in
a single statement.
Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (‫ )رضي للا عنه‬said:‘It is
enough of a lie for a man that he narrates
everything he hears’.3
Imam An- Nawawi (may Allah have mercy
on him) said concerning this and similar
hadiths:
This is a warning not to speak of everything
that one hears, for usually a person hears
things that are true and things that are
false, so if he were to speak of everything
that he hears, he would be telling lies,
because he would be telling of something
that did not happen.4
5. People who narrate everything that they
hear are in fact liars according to the
verdict of the Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺ‬.
Abu Hurairah (‫ )رضي للا عنه‬said: The Prophet
(‫ )ﷺ‬said, “It is enough for a man to prove
2 Part of a Hadith from At-Tirmidhi 1973, Sahih

(Al-Albani).
3 Sahih Muslim 9.
4 End quote from Sharh Sahih Muslim (1/75).
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himself a liar when he goes on narrating
whatever he hears.”5
6. Muslim speakers or scholars who lie
with regards to the Messenger of Allah ‫ ﷺ‬or
his companions are not worthy of being
Imams of the Deen according to the words
of Imam Malik.
Imam Mālik said: ‘Know that a man who
relates everything he hears is not safe, and
he can never be an Imām, as long as he
narrates everything he hears’.6
7. People started fabricating and making
false narrations attributing them to Ali Ibn
Abi Talib after his death and this was
common knowledge among the scholars of
Hadith that many narrations were falsely
attributed to Ali (‫)رضي للا عنه‬.
Hasan bin Alī al-Hulwānī narrated to us,
Yahyā bin Ādam narrated to us, Ibn Idrīs
narrated to us, on authority of al-A’mash,
on authority of Abī Ishāq who said:
‘When they narrated these things after Alī,
a man from the companions of Alī said:
‘May Allah curse them. Did they corrupt
every [type of] knowledge!?’ 7
5 Sahih Muslim.
6 Sahih Muslim 10.
7 Sahih Muslim 24.
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8. It is also not permissible to sit with
storytellers and give them ears in order to
listen to their admonitions if they are using
false and unauthentic narrations.
Abū Kāmil al-Jahdarī narrated to us,
Hammād- and he is Ibn Zayd- narrated to
us, he said Āsim [bin Bahdalah] narrated
to us, he said:
‘We would catch up with Abū Abd ar-
Rahman as-Sulamī and at the time we
were young men, so he would say to us: ‘Do
not sit with story-tellers other than Abūl-
Ahwas and beware of Shaqīq [Abū Abd ar-
Rahīm]’. Imam Muslim said: ‘This Shaqīq
held the view of the Khawārij and is not
Abū Wā’il [Shaqīq bin Salamah, the
righteous Tabi’ī]’.
9. Even if a Muslim is known to be
righteous but it is known from him that he
lies while narrating statements from the
Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬or the companions of the
prophet then it is not permissible to listen
to his Ahadith or narrations.
Hajjāj bin ash-Shā’ir narrated to me,
Sulaymān bin Harb narrated to us,
Hammād bin Zayd narrated to us, he said,
Ayyūb said:‘Indeed I have a neighbor’ and
he mentioned some of his virtues, [and
continued] ‘…even if he testified to me
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about two dates I would not see his
testimony(in narrations) as permissible’. 8
I.e. Ayyub praised his neighbour for his
good qualities and virtues, however this
didn’t stop him from clarifying that the
same neighbour wasn’t trustworthy
enough to narrate Hadith. This shows that
just having a ‘good character’ is not solely
enough to narrate Ahadith.
10. The above were a few simple proofs
about not narrating and quoting from
unknown sources.
After this if anyone quotes from unknown
sources, then we ask Allah to guide him
and us to what is right.
All we can do is only convey- Ultimate
Guidance is with Allah The Most High.
8 Sahih Muslim 61.
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Arabia Before Islam
It was almost 570 years since the
honorable messenger of Bani Israeel, Isa
ibn Maryam (Jesus Christ son of
Mary), was lifted by Allah to the heavens.
The world was filled with the darkness and
ignorance of idol worship, priest worship,
grave worship and other forms of
polytheism. The Arab pagans were
drenched in idol worship, the Persians had
their own model of polytheism, the
Christians were worshipping Isa ibn
Maryam (Jesus) terming him ‘the son of
God’ and the Jews called some of their
Prophets as ‘sons of God’ and both the
Jews and the Christians ‘took their Rabbis
and monks as lords besides Allah’,
allowing their monks to manipulate the
religious texts as and when they wished.
Apart from that the world, especially the
Arabian Peninsula, was filled with various
other forms of social evils and societal
degradation, like indulgence in wine,
gambling, human sacrifice, female
infanticide, prostitution, fornication and
adultery, dacoity and inter-tribal warfare
etc.
Slavery was widely practiced and slaves
were considered subhuman, they did not
have any rights of their own. They were
totally at the mercy of their masters who
could harm them or mutilate them as and
when they desired.
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Some of the religious, learned and pious
men from the Ahlul-Kitab9, tried their best
to follow the pristine teachings of Moosa
and Isa10, and did not commit acts of
polytheism like the other Ahlul-Kitab. This
minor group awaited the coming of the last
and final Prophet of Allah, the honorable
Messenger, Muhammad bin Abdullah bin
Abdul Muttalib ‫ ﷺ‬.
9 People of the book: The Jews and the Christians

are collectively called as such in The Quran as
they were a people who received books from Allah.
10Moses and Jesus.
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The Birth of Prophet Muhammad
‫ ﷺ‬-His Childhood And Youth
The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬was born on the 9th of Rabi
Al-Awwal, 571 C.E11, 20th or 22nd of April
on Monday12. His father Abdullah bin
Abdul Muttalib died even before he ‫ ﷺ‬was
born and his mother Amina bint Wahb
died when he ‫ ﷺ‬was six.
Later he ‫ ﷺ‬was looked after by his
grandfather (‘Abdul Muttalib) and when
he ‫ ﷺ‬was eight his grandfather passed
away and he ‫ ﷺ‬was under the care of his
uncle Abu Talib.
The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬in his childhood worked as
a shepherd for the people of Makkah. He ‫ﷺ‬
was never ever involved in any sin, big or
small. The people around Muhammad ‫ﷺ‬
were so impressed by his noble character
that he ‫ ﷺ‬was called Al-Ameen (The
Trustworthy) and As-Sadiq (The Truthful)
by his people.
The Prophet Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬married a twice
widowed lady Khadija bint Khuwailid when
he ‫ ﷺ‬was twenty-five years old13.
11 Christian Era.
12 Ar-Raheeq ul-Makhtoum,71, Darussalam
Publishers.
13 Khadijah was 28 or35 years old and not 40 like
the popular but weak opinion {See Ma-Shaa Wa

Lam Tasbut Fis-Seerah by Dr.Muhammad Al-
Ushan| See- ‘Famous But Unauthentic Stories
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Bilal bin Rabah Before
Islam
Bilal’s mother was Hamamah, he was said
to be Al-Habashi (An Ethiopian by
descent), and it was said that he was born
in the region of Hijaz (in the Arabian
Peninsula).14 He was the slave of a Quraish
Cheiftain Umayya bin Khalaf.
The First Revelation Upon The

The first revelation descended upon The
Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬when he was in the cave of Hira,
he was around forty years old. Jibreel, the
leader of the angels visited him and recited
to him the first five verses of Surah Al-
Alaq15.
From The Seerah of The Prophet Muhammad’

which is the summarized translation of the
aforementioned book in English by me.}.
14 Siyar A’lam An-Nubala.
[Mohammed Thajammul Hussain Manna:] It seems

that he was 10 or more years younger than the
Prophet ‫ﷺ‬, and Allah knows the best.
15 Chapter 96 of The Quran.
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The Meeting with Waraqa bin
Noufal
Prophet Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬was tensed and
worried about what he had experienced.
His wife Khadijah bint Khuwailid consoled
him and reassured him that Allah will not
forsake or harm a kind, honest and
benevolent man like him.
She took him ‫ ﷺ‬to her cousin Waraqa bin
Noufal who was a scholar of the Injeel
(Bible). He informed Prophet Muhammad ‫ﷺ‬
that it was Jibreel who came to the
previous prophets and messengers with
revelations from Allah, The Almighty God.
Waraqa bin Noufal also informed that
Prophet Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬would one day be
driven out by his own people and be made
to exit Makkah, as no Messenger or
Prophet came with ‘The Message of The
Oneness of Allah16’ but he was maltreated
and exiled by his own people.
Waraqa bin Noufal had converted

to Christianity long ago in his search for
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a true religion; he accepted that Prophet

Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬was indeed the prophet of
Allah18 and became a Muslim. He
died shortly after this incident. The
Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬spent the initial years of his
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17 He was from a family of idol worshippers before.
18 Hence Waraqa died as a Muslim
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Prophetic life secretly inviting people to
Islam.
The Foremost People to Accept
Islam
Khadija bint Khuwailid was the
first one to accept Islam; because it was
with her that the Prophet met and spoke
to, first, immediately after recieveing the
first revelation in the ‘Cave of Hira’. And
her faith strengthened when Waraqa bin
Nawfal confirmed that Muhammad was
indeed granted Prophethood. The Sahaba
gave different opinions concerning the
first people to accept Islam. This must be
understood as being their discretion
according to their knowledge of the
events.19
Imam Ibn Katheer mentioned in As-Seerah

An-Nabawiyyah after mentioning varying
opinions on the ones who accepted Islam
first:
“Abu Hanifa responded by

combining these statements and
concluded that the first free man to accept
Islam was Abu Bakr, that Khadija was the
first woman, Zaid bin Harithah the first
slave, and 'Ali ibn Abi Talib was the first
19Summarized from Dr.Muhammad As-Suyani’s

comments in his book Al-Ahadith As-Sahiha Fee
As-Seerah An-Nabawiyyah.
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boy (first child). Allah be pleased with them
all. .”20 21
20 As-Seerah An-Nabawiyyah, Vol.1, page 317,

Translated into English by Professor Trevor Le
Gassick.
21 This is what is generally agreed upon by the
Muslim historians. And Allah knows the best.
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The Beginning of Open Da’wah
After a few years of secret Dawah 22 , Allah
commanded The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬to call his
kinsmen 23to Islam. Thus the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
climbed atop Mount Safa and called almost
every important family of The Quraish by
name, and invited them to 'Worship Allah
alone and stop idol worship'. All of the
listeners were silent except Abu
Lahab who cursed The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬. Then
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Allah revealed Surah Al-Masad26wherein

Allah cursed Abu Lahab and his wife
Ummu Jameel, as both of them used to
abuse and persecute The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬and
his Sahaba27.
22 Three-four years. Da’wah here means calling

people to Islam.
23His closest people,i.e. his relatives.
24The prophet's paternal uncle.
25Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 6, Book 60, Hadith 495
26Chapter 111 of The Quran.
27 His companions, who accepted Islam, served
The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬and lived and died as Muslims.
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‘Amr bin ‘Abasah’s Experience of
The Tense Situation In Makkah
And Bilal Being One of The Firsts
To Accept Islam
Àmr ibn Àbasah narrated:

“I came to the Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺ‬in
Makkah when he was first commissioned
with Prophethood. The Messenger ‫ ﷺ‬was at
that time hiding (as his people had made
life difficult for him).” I said: “Who are
you?” He ‫ ﷺ‬said: “I am a Prophet.” I again
said: “And what is a Prophet?” He ‫ﷺ‬said:
“(I am a Prophet in the sense that I have
been sent by Allah) as His Messenger.”
I said: “Did Allah send you?” He ‫ﷺ‬said:
‘Yes!” I again asked: “What is that which
you have been sent with?” He ‫ﷺ‬said:
“That Allah be worshiped alone, without
associating any partners with him in
worship, and to break the idols, and to join
ties of relationship (with kindness and
affection).”
I said: “What a pleasant thing you have
been sent with. Who follows you in this
(belief and practice)?” He said: “A free man
and a slave.”
He (the narrator Abu Umamah Al-Bahili)
added: Abu Bakr and Bilal were there with
him among those who had embraced Islam
by that time.
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And Àmr used to say: “I used to consider
myself as one of the four persons who were
Muslims (i.e. one-fourth of Islam).” Àmr
then said: I embraced Islam and said:
“Shall I (openly) follow you?” He said: “No!
You should return to your people, and
when you are informed that I have emerged
then you should come to me.”28 29 30
28 Imam Ibn Katheer said: It is said that the

meaning of the Prophet’s ‫ﷺ‬statement: “A free man
and a slave.” Means the categories (of people who
had embraced Islam). The explanation that it was
only referring to Abu Bakr and Bilal needs to be
reanalyzed because there was a group of people
who had already embraced Islam before Àmr ibn
Àbasah, and also Zaid ibn Ḥarithah embraced
Islam before Bilal. Perhaps Àmr’s statement that
he was one-fourth of Islam was due to whatever
information he had. The Believers at that time used
to hide their Islam and many did not inform about
it even to their families, leave alone the strangers,
and leave alone the Bedouins of the desert (and
other towns) from the Arabs. And Allah knows
best.
29 Shaikh Al-Albani said: Imam Muslim reported in
his Sahih (832-294) in the Chapter: The prayer of

the travellers, but with different wording, and that
narration is longer than this. The narration with
this wording was reported by Al-Hakim in his Al-
Mustadrak (6584) and said: The chain of this
narration is Sahih, and Adh-Dhahabi agreed with
him. (Abu Sahl Fahd, from his English translation
of Sahihus Seerah of Al-Albani)
30 Abu Sahl Fahad.
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The People Who Publicly Declared
Their Islam And Bilal’s
Steadfastness While Being
Tortured
Bilal bin Rabah was the slave
of Umaiyya bin Khalaf, one of the chiefs of
the pagans of Makkah. When Bilal
accepted Islam and his master saw this,
his master continuously tortured him to
make him renounce his faith.
Bilal was placed in the scorching hot desert

sand in broad daylight and a huge rock
used to be placed over him as a
punishment for abandoning paganism and
worshipping Allah, The One Almighty True
God.
Many of the companions who were forced

to say statements of disbelief by their
tormentors complied with the demands of
the disbelievers under duress and said
statements of Kufr (disbelief), whereas
Bilal bin Rabah did not give in.
What the other companions did was
permissible according to the
circumstances but what Bilal bin Rabah
did was highly rewarding.
As he was tormented, Bilal kept repeating

‘Ahad, Ahad’ (One, One, i.e. Allah is Only
One). And if Bilal bin Rabah was killed by
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the persecution meted out to him he would
be ranked amongst the martyrs.
It was narrated that 'Abdullah bin

Mas'ood said:
"The first people to declare their Islam

publicly were seven: The Messenger of
Allah ‫ﷺ‬, Abu Bakr, 'Ammar and his
mother Sumayyah, Suhaib, Bilal and
Miqdad .
With regard to the Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺ‬,
Allah protected him through his paternal
uncle Abu Talib. With regard to Abu Bakr,
Allah protected him through his people 31.
As for the rest, the idolaters seized them

and made them wear coats of chain-mail
and exposed them to the intense heat of
the sun. There was none of them who did
not do what they wanted them to do,
except for Bilal.
He did not care what happened to him for

the sake of Allah, and his people did not
care what happened to him. Then they
gave him to the children who took him
around in the streets of Makkah while he
was saying, 'Ahad, Ahad (One, One).'" 32
31 I.e Abu Bakr’s tribe were eminent and well

known, so he couldn’t be harmed easily.
32 Sunan Ibn Majah 150. Shaikh Al-Albani
declared this narration to be Hasan.
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Imam Ibn Katheer said in As-Sirah An-
Nabawiyyah: And it is in regards to this
that Allah revealed:
ُ‫ن أ ُ ْك ِر َه َوقَ ْلبُ هه‬‫ّل َم ْه‬ ‫مِن بَ ْع ِهد إِي َمانِ ِهه إِ َ ه‬
‫اّلل ْه‬ ‫ن َكف َهَر بِ َِه‬ ‫َم ْه‬
‫صد ًْرا‬ ْ ُ
َ ‫ح بِالكف ِهر‬ْ ‫ن ش ََر َه‬ ‫ِن َم ْه‬ َ
‫ان َولك ْه‬ ‫اْلي َم ِه‬ْ
ِ ِ‫ُمط َمئِنه ب‬ ْ
‫عظِ يمه‬َ ‫عذَابه‬ َ
َ ‫ّللا َول ُه ْهم‬ ‫ضبه مِنَه َِه‬ َ ‫غ‬ َ ‫فَعَلَ ْي ِه ْهم‬
“Whoever disbelieved in Allah after his
belief, - except him who is forced (to
renounce his religion) while his heart is at
rest with Faith 1 - but those who (willingly)
open their breasts to disbelief, on them is
wrath from Allah, and for them will be a
great torment.” [Quran, Surah An-Nahl 16:
106]
Sumayyah bint Khayyat was ultimately

killed by Abu Jahl, the Makkan pagan
chief, and she became the first martyr of
Islam. Her husband Yasir bin ‘Amr also
died of the persecution. May Allah be
pleased with them both.
Bilal bin Rabah Is Freed From

Slavery By Abu Bakr
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Qais bin Abu Hazim narrates
that:
Abu Bakr bought Bilal for two hundred

Dirhams33 and freed him. The oppressors
had placed him pressed under rocks. Abu
Bakr bought him and freed him from these
trials. The polytheists told Abu Bakr, 'If
you would ask him for one Uqiyah (almost
forty Dirhams of that time) we would have
obliged and sold him to you'. Abu Bakr
replied, ' If you would have asked me to
give hundred Uqiyah’s for him, I would
have still bought him.". 34
33 The weight of a Dirham, of that era, was 2.975

grams of silver and a Dinar was equal to 4.25
grams of gold. One Uqiyah was equal to forty silver
Dirhams. (Islamqa.info 3119, 239920.)
34 Ibn Abi Shaibah: 7/337 (33002), Hilyatul-Auliya
1/38. Imam Adh-Dhahabi said that the chain of

this narration is Qawi (strong)- Siyar Alam An-
Nubala 1/353. Dr.Muhammad As-Suyani said
that the narration is Sahih in his book.
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The Polytheists Did Not Want
Prophet Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬To Sit
With The Downtrodden of The
Society
It was narrated from Khabbab

, concerning the Verse:
َ‫ولَ تط ُْرَِد اله ِذينَ ي ْدعُونَ رهَّبُم ِِبلْغد َاةِ والْع ِش َِي يُ ِري ُدون‬
‫و ْجه َهَُۖ ما عل ْيكَ ِم َْن ِحساَّبِِم ِمن ش ْيءَ وما ِم َْن‬
َ‫ون ِمن‬ َ ‫ِحسابِكَ عل ْي ِهم ِمن ش ْي َء ف تط ُْرد ُه َْم ف ت ُك‬
َ‫الظهالِ ِمي‬
‘And turn not away those who invoke their
Lord, morning and afternoon seeking His
Face. Not upon you is anything of their
account and not upon them is anything of
your account. So were you to send them
away, you would (then) be of the
wrongdoers.’ 35
He said: “Al-Aqra’ bin Habis At-Tamimi and

‘Uyainah bin Hisn Al-Fazari came and
found the Messenger of Allah ‫ ﷺ‬with
Suhaib, Bilal, ‘Ammar and Khabbab,
sitting with some of the believers who were
weak (i.e., socially). When they saw them
35 Quran, Surah Al-Anàm 6:52.
31
around the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬they looked down on
them.
They took the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬aside and said:

‘We want you to sit with us along, so that
the ‘Arabs will recognize our superiority. If
the delegations of the Arabs come to you
we will feel ashamed if the Arabs see us
with these slaves. So, when we come to
you, make them get up from your
presence, then when we have finished, sit
with them if you wish.’
He ‫ ﷺ‬said: ‘Yes.’ They said: ‘Write a

document for us (binding you to that).’ So
he called for a piece of paper and he called
‘Ali to write, and we were sitting in a
corner.
Then Jibreel, came down and said (that

Allah revealed): “And turn not away those
who invoke their Lord, morning and
afternoon seeking His Face. You are
accountable for them in nothing, and they
are accountable for you in nothing, that
you may turn them away, and thus become
of the unjust.” [Quran 6:52]
‫ِين َيدْعُونَه َربَ ُهم ِب ْالغَدَا ِهة َو ْال َعش ه‬

ِ ‫ِي‬ ‫ّل ت َْط ُر ِهد َالذ َه‬
‫َو َ ه‬
‫سا ِب ِه هم ِمن‬َ ‫ن ِح‬ ‫علَيْكَه ِم ْه‬
َ ‫ي ُِريدُونَه َوجْ َه ههُ ۖه َما‬
‫ش ْيءه فَت َْط ُردَهُ ْهم‬ َ ‫ن‬ ‫علَ ْي ِهم ِم ه‬
َ ‫سابِكَه‬َ ‫ن ِح‬ ‫ش ْيءه َو َما ِم ْه‬ َ
‫ين‬ َ
‫ن الظا ِل ِم َه‬ ‫فَتَكُونَه ِم َه‬
32
Then he mentioned Al-Aqra’ bin Habis and
‘Uyaynah bin Hisn, then he said: “Thus We
have tried some of them with others, that
they might say: ‘Is it these (poor believers)
whom Allah has favored from amongst us?’
Does not Allah know best those who are
grateful.” [Quran 6:53]
‫ض ُه ْهم ِببَ ْعضه ِليَقُولُوا أ َ َهؤ َُّلءِه َم َه‬

‫ن‬ َ ‫َو َكذَ ِلكَه فَتَنَها بَ ْع‬
‫ين‬ َ ‫ّللاُ بِأ َ ْعلَ َهم بِال‬
‫شا ِك ِر َه‬ ‫ْس َه‬‫ن بَ ْينِنَها أَلَي َه‬
‫علَ ْي ِه ْهم ِم ْه‬ ‫َه‬
َ ُ‫ّللا‬
Then he said: “When those who believe in

Our Ayaat (Verses) come to you, say:
Salamun ‘Alaykum (peace be on you); your
Lord has written (prescribed) mercy for
Himself”.” [Quran 6:54]
‫س ََل هم‬ َ ‫ل‬ ‫َو ِإذَا َجا َءكَه الَذ َه‬

‫ِين يُؤْ ِم ُنونَه ِبآيَاتِنَا فَقُ ْه‬
‫الرحْ َمةَه ۖه أَنَ ههُ َم ْه‬
‫ن‬ َ ‫علَىه نَ ْف ِس ِهه‬ ‫علَ ْيكُ ْهم ۖه َكت َه‬
َ ‫َب َربُّكُ ْهم‬ َ
‫ن بَ ْع ِد ِه‬
‫َاب ِم ه‬ ُ
‫ل ِمنكُ ْهم سُو ًءا ِب َج َهالَةه ث َهم ت َه‬ ‫ع ِم َه‬
َ
‫غفُوره َر ِح ه‬
‫يم‬ َ ُ‫ح فَأَنَ هه‬ ْ َ ‫َوأ‬
‫صلَ َه‬
He (Khabbab) said: “Then we got so close
to him that our knees were touching his,
and the Messenger of Allah ‫ ﷺ‬was sitting
with us. When he wanted to get up, he
stood up and left us. Then Allah revealed:
“And keep yourself patiently with those
who call on their Lord morning and
afternoon, seeking His Face; and let not
your eyes overlook them,” – and do not sit
33
with the nobles – “desiring the pomp and
glitter of the life of the world; and obey not
him whose heart We have made heedless
of Our remembrance,” – meaning ‘Uyainah
and Aqra’ – “and who follows his own lusts,
and those affair (deeds) has been lost”
[Quran 18:28]
He ‫ ﷺ‬said: ‘May they be doomed.’ He said:

‘May ‘Uyainah and Al-Aqra’ be doomed36.’
Then he made the parable for them of two
men and the parable of this world.
Khabbab said: “We used to sit with the
Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬and if the time came for him to
leave, we would get up and leave him, then
he would leave.”37
Sa`d (Ibn Abi Waqqas)

reported:
36 Al-Aqra bin Habis and ‘Uyainah bin Hisn

accepted Islam after the conquest of Makkah.
‘Uyainah bin Hisn had a brief period in life where
he apostatized and joined the army of Tulaihah
bin Khuwailid Al-Asadi-who claimed to be a
prophet in falsehood- during the Caliphate of Abu
Bakr As-Siddeeq. After the defeat of Tulaihah’s
forces in the Battle of Buzakha, ‘Uyainah bin Hisn
was captured,he repented and came back to
Islam. Tulaihah bin Khuwailid escaped from the
battlefield and he too returned as a repenting
Muslim. See- ‘Abu Bakr Al-
Siddiq : His Life and Times’ by Dr. Ali Muhammad
As-Sallabi.
37 Sunan Ibn Majah Vol. 5, Book 37, Hadith 4127.
Declared Sahih by Shaikh Al-Albani.
34
“We were six men in the company of Allah’s
Messenger ‫ ﷺ‬when the Mushriks
(polytheists) said to Allah’s Messenger‫ﷺ‬:
‘Drive them away, lest they should begin to
venture against us.’ He (Sa`d) said: (The six
were) Myself, Ibn Masòod, and a person
from the tribe of Hudhail, Bilal and two
other men whose names I do not know.
The Messenger of Allah ‫ ﷺ‬thought what
Allah wished him to think, and then Allah
revealed:
‘And turn not away those who invoke their
Lord, morning and afternoon seeking His
Face…’38 39
38Quran, Surah Al-Anàm 6:52.

39Sahih Muslim (2413-45, 46), Sunan Ibn Maajah
(4128), Ibn Jareer (7/202), al-Hakim (5393) and
he said: ‘It is Sahih as per the condition of Al-
Bukhari and Muslim’, and Adh-Dhahabi agreed
with him.|Shaikh Al-Albani said in Silsilatul
Ahadith As-Sahihah (7/876-877): This is an error
on their part for two reasons. First: Al-Hakim
saying that Muslim did not report it, whereas he
did indeed report it in his Sahih. Second: Saying
that it meets the condition of Al-Bukhari, whereas
Al-Bukhari did not narrate from the route of Al-
Miqdam ibn Shuraih and his father in his Sahih.
35
40
Migration to Abyssinia (Al-
Habsha)
As the persecution of Muslims in Makkah
from the idol worshippers increased. The
Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬informed The Sahaba that
Abyssinia, a Christian Kingdom, was ruled
by a wise and just king, Najashi41 Ashuma
bin Abjar42, so it was a safer place to
migrate to and practice Islam.
Thus, in Rajab, the 5th year of The
Prophetic Mission, around eleven men and
four women left Makkah for Abyssinia 43.
The Quraish sent their delegates, Amr bin
Al- ‘As and ‘Abdullah bin Abi Rabi‘a 44, to
the king of Abyssinia to bring back the
Sahaba, but the King turned down their
requests and sent the Quraishi envoys
empty handed.
40Abyssinia included modern day Ethiopia,small

parts of southern Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia etc.
41‫نجاشي‬
42‫أصحمة بن أبجر‬
43[Tarikh Al-Islam, Volume 1, Page 114,
Darussalaam Publishers]
44 Both of these people accepted Islam later in
their lives.
36
The Testing Days Bilal Spent
With The Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺ‬
During The Social Boycott By The
Pagans of Makkah
The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬and the tribes allied to him
through familial ties were boycotted and
were living isolated in a corner in Makkah.
Food and other supplies weren’t allowed to
reach them. Bilal at this juncture was with
the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬.
Anas narrated that the

Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺ‬said:
"Indeed I have feared for the sake of Allah,
such that no one has feared, and I have
been harmed for the sake of Allah, such
that no one has been harmed. Thirty days
and nights have passed over me, and there
was no food with Bilal and I
forced something with a liver to eat, except
what Bilal could conceal under his
armpit."45 46
45 Jaami’ At-Tirmidhi 2472, Sunan Ibn Majah 151,

Musnad Ahmad 12212.
46 Dr.Mahdi noted: “It is said that the boycott
started in Muharram of the seventh year after the

Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬was commissioned. It lasted for two to
three years. Musa bin ‘Uqba is positive that it was
three years.- Ibn Hajar in Al-Fath (15/38); Adh-
Dhahabi in As-Sirah, p.221 and the following
pages; and Ibn Sa’d (1/208-210), but their chains
are weak”. (Dr.Mahdi’s book, Vol.1, p.244)
37
After the end of the boycott, Abu Talib
and the Prophet’s beloved wife Khadija
passed away. Abu Talib adamantly dying
without accepting Islam. After Khadija
bint Khuwailid the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬married
Saudah bint Zamah and Ayesha bint Abi
Bakr.
38
Al-Isra wal-Mi’raj47
One of Prophet's ‫ ﷺ‬greatest48 miracles49,

bestowed upon him by Allah was Al-Isra
and Al-Miraj. Al-Isra means the night
journey from Kabah (In Masjid ul Haram,
Makkah) to Bait Al-Maqdis (In Jerusalem,
Palestine) in one night. Al-Miraj means the
ascension of The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬from Bait Al-
Maqdis to the seventh heaven.
He ‫ ﷺ‬went to Masjid Al-Aqsa on an animal

named Buraq50with Angel Jibreel. There he
‫ ﷺ‬led all the previous prophets in prayer.
Then he ascended to the heavens. In the
first heaven he ‫ ﷺ‬met Adam, second he ‫ﷺ‬
met Yahya bin Zakariyyah and Isa ibn
Maryam, third Yousuf, fourth Idrees, fifth
Haroon, sixth Musa and in the seventh he
met Ibraheem. May Allah be pleased with
them all.
He ‫ ﷺ‬also saw the Sidratul-Muntaha, the

farthest Jujube tree, and he ‫ ﷺ‬explained
the great beauty of the tree. Then Prophet
Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬met Allah, and didn't
directly see Allah. Allah gifted him ‫ ﷺ‬with
47 (12th or 10th Year of Prophethood).

48 The greatest miracle of the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬is The
Quran.
49 Read ‘The Miracles of The Prophet ‫ ’ﷺ‬by Imam Ibn
Kathir to learn more about the Prophet’s miracles.

50An animal smaller than a mule and larger than a
donkey.
39
fifty obligatory prayers. The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬kept
requesting for lesser as and when Musa
suggested to him, till Allah reduced it to
five prayers per day. Allah also showed the
Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬many visions from the
punishments of the hell-fire and visions
from the blessings in paradise.
Prophet Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬returned to

Makkah the very night and narrated his
experience to the people. Abu Bakr
believed in him without a doubt and hence
was titled As-Siddeeq (The one who
believes). When the Makkan disbelievers
quizzed him ‫ ﷺ‬about Masjid Al-Aqsa (Bait
Al-Maqdis), to check his claim about going
there, he ‫ ﷺ‬described it in detail to them.
40
The Station of Bilal In
Paradise
It was narrated that Ibn ‘Abbas
said:
“On the night when the Prophet‫ ﷺ‬was
taken on the Night Journey (Isra'), he
entered Paradise and heard a sound in
some part of it. He said: “O Jibreel, what is
this?” He said: This is Bilal, the
Mu'adhdhin51.
When he came to the people, the Prophet
of Allah‫ ﷺ‬said: “Bilal has attained
success; I saw such and such for him.” 52
Narrated Abu Huraira:
At the time of the Fajr prayer the Prophet
(‫ )ﷺ‬asked Bilal, "Tell me of the best deed
you did after embracing Islam, for I heard
your footsteps in front of me in Paradise."
Bilal replied, "I did not do anything worth

mentioning except that whenever I
51 The one who gives the Adhan-the call for the five
obligatory prayers.
52 Portion of a Hadith from Musnad Ahmad 2324,
Shaikh Ahmad Shakir graded this narration to be

Sahih, Imam ibn Katheer said that it is Sahih in
his Tafseer (5/25), Imam As-Suyooti in Ad-Durr
An-Mansoor (9/203) also graded it Sahih, Shaikh
Shuaib Al-Arnauut graded the narration Da’if
(weak) and Imam Al-Haithami said that all the
men of this narration are Sahih except Qaboos
who is weak.
41
performed ablution during the day or
night, I prayed after that ablution as much
as was written for me."
Dawah To The Arabs In The Hajj

Season
The people of Arabia believed that they

were upon the religion of Prophet
Ibraheem. Hence they performed the
'Hajj53' to the Kabah, adding upon it many
innovations and things not taught by
Ibraheem and Ismaeel54.
In the years before his‫ ﷺ‬subsequent

migration to Yathrib55. The Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
called the various Arab tribes who came to
Makkah to Islam. At one such occasion
Abu Lahb would throw dust upon the
Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬and warn the people from the
blessed call of The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬saying that
he ‫ ﷺ‬was taking the Arabs away from Al-
Lat and Al-Uzza (two famous idols of the
Arabs)56.
The people of Madinah (the non-Jews) were

attracted to the pure call of The Prophet
Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬, they understood that this
53 The greater pilgrimage to Kabah.

54
55The old name of Madinah.
56The Arabs had many idols that they worshipped
alongside Allah.
42
man, Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abdul
Muttalib Al-Quraishi57 Al-Hashimi58‫ ﷺ‬was
indeed the awaited last and final
Messenger of Allah, who was prophesized
by the Jews in Madinah. The Medinan
people (non-Jews) were divided mainly into
two tribes, Al-Aws and Al-Khazraj. Many of
the Medinans(people of Madinah) were
prepared and set to accept Islam whole
heartedly.
First Pledge of Aqabah
The coming year twelve Medinans, ten from

Al-Khazraj and two from Al-Aws, met the
Prophet Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬at night in a place
called Aqabah in Makkah. They pledged
allegiance to the Prophet Muhammad ‫ﷺ‬
(i.e. they accepted Islam) and promised to
worship Allah alone and stay away from all
acts of polytheism, to not steal, not kill
their children (for fear of poverty),not
slander anyone, not spread falsehood and
not disobey the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬.
They left for Madinah later on. After that

the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬sent Musab bin Umair and
Amr bin Umm Maktoum to
teach The Quran to the Muslims in
57 Al-Qurashi is the title because of his ‫ ﷺ‬tribe

Quraish.
58 Al-Hashimi is the title because of his clan(a
family inside the main tribe) Banu Hashim,
43
Madinah and call the others to Islam.
Second Pledge of Aqabah
The next year, seventy three men and two

women from Madinah, came and pledged
allegiance to the Prophet Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬in
the same place Aqabah at night without
the Quraish being informed of anything
about it. The people of Madinah also
invited the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬to live with them in
Madinah and promised that they'd protect
the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬whole heartedly and
wouldn't allow any harm to come upon
him.
44
The Hijrah of Bilal
Narrated Al-Bara bin Azib:
“The first people who came to us (in

Madinah) were Musàb bin Ùmayr and Ibn
Umm Maktum who were teaching Qur'an
to the people.
Then there came Bilal, Sa`d and Àmmar

bin Yasir. After that Ùmar bin Al-Khattab
came along with twenty other companions
of the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬.
Later on, the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬himself (to

Madinah) and I had never seen the people
of Madinah as joyful as they were on the
arrival of Allah's Messenger, for even the
slave girls were saying, "Allah's Messenger
‫ ﷺ‬has arrived!"
And before his arrival I had read the Sura

starting with: -"Glorify the Name of your
Lord, the Most High" (87:1) together with
other Suras of Al-Mufassal.”59
59 Sahih Al-Bukhari 3925.
Al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar said: Al-Mufassal (Surahs)

starts with Soorah Qaaf and goes to the end of the
Qur’an, according to the sound opinion. It is called
Mufassal because there many breaks between the
Surahs, where the Basmalah appears, according
to the correct opinion. End quote from Fath al-
Baari, 2/295. See also Fath al-Baari, 9/43.
(islamqa.info|143301)
45
46
The Institution of The Adhan
The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬reached Quba60 and lived

there for some days. He ‫ ﷺ‬build Masjid Al-
Quba, this was the first Masjid built by the
Prophet ‫ﷺ‬ after his Prophethood.
Ali ibn Abi Talib remained in

Makkah for three days after the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
left, to return the belongings of the people
of Makkah kept with the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬. He
joined the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬in Quba.
On the way to Madinah, he ‫ ﷺ‬halted at a

place of Banu Salim bin Awf and he
‫ﷺ‬performed the Jumuah Salah with
around hundred Sahaba. The Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
reached Madinah on Friday, 12th Rabi-ul-
Awwal61, 1 A.H62.
60 Reached Quba, on Monday, 8th Rabi-ul-Awwal,

fourteenth year of Prophethood.
61 September 27th, 622 CE.
62The Islamic calendar, which is based purely on
lunar cycles, was introduced in 638 Christian Era

(CE) by Umar ibn Al Khattab, a close companion of
the Noble Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬and the second Caliph of
Islam. He did it in an attempt to rationalize the
various, at times conflicting, dating systems used
during his time.
Umar consulted his advisers on the starting date of
the new Muslim chronology. It was finally agreed
that the most appropriate reference point for the
Islamic calendar was the Hijra. Quoted from
http://library.islamweb.net/en/article/200326/si
gnificance-of-the-islamic-hijri-calendar.
47
When the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬reached Madinah he
was heartily welcomed by the Madinan
Sahaba. Initially he ‫ ﷺ‬lived in the house of
Abu Ayyub Al-Ansari .
He ‫ ﷺ‬along with the Sahaba63 built Masjid

An-Nabawi, on a land which belonged two
orphans and was purchased from them.
The Qiblah faced Jerusalem at this time.
The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬and his Sahaba were

discussing on how to call people to the five
daily Salah. When Abdullah bin Zaid
related that he saw a dream
about the Adhan64, the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬liked the
wordings and asked him to teach it to Bilal
bin Rabah , the Abyssinian.
Bilal bin Rabah became the first
Mu’adhdhin65 of Islam. Abdullah bin
Ummu Maktoum66 was the other
Mu’adhdhin alongside Bilal bin Rabah
.
Al-Qasim bin ‘Abdur Rahman said: The

first one to give the Adhan (call to prayers)
amongst the Muslims was Bilal bin
Rabah.67
63 The companions of The Prophet ‫ﷺ‬.

64 The Muslim call to prayer.
65 The one who calls out the Adhan.
66
67 Tareekh Dimashq of Ibn Asakir (10/446).
48
Narrated Abu Umayr ibn Anas
:
“Abu Umayr reported on the authority of
his uncle who was from the Ansaar (the
helpers of the Prophet): The Prophet ‫ﷺه‬was
anxious as to how to gather the people for
prayer.
The people told him: “Hoist a flag at the

time of prayer; when they see it, they will
inform one another.” But he (the Prophet)
did not like it.
Then someone mentioned to him the horn.

Ziyad said: “A horn of the Jews.” He (the
Prophet ‫ )ﷺ‬did not like it. He said: “This is
the matter of the Jews.”
Then they mentioned to him the bell of the

Christians. He said: “This is the matter of
the Christians”. ‘Abdullah ibn Zaid
returned anxiously from there because of
the anxiety of the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬. He was then
taught the call to prayer in his dream. Next
day he came to the Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺ‬
and informed him about it.
He said: “Messenger of Allah, I was

between sleep and wakefulness; all of a
sudden a newcomer came (to me) and
taught me the call to prayer”.
‘Umar ibn Al-Khattab had also seen it in

his dream before, but he kept it hidden for
twenty days.
49
The Prophet ‫ﷺه‬said to me (‘Umar): What did
prevent you from saying it to me? He said:
“Abdullah ibn Zaid had already told you
about it before me: hence I was ashamed”.
Then the Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺه‬said: “Bilal,

stand up, see what Abdullah ibn Zaid tells
you (to do), then do it.” Bilal then called
them to prayer.
Abu Bishr reported on the authority of Abu

Umayr: The Ansaar thought that if
‘Abdullah ibn Zaid had not been ill on that
day, the Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺ‬would have
made him the Mu'addhin.68 69
It was narrated from Muhammed bin

'Abdullah bin Zaid that his father
said that:
“The Messenger of Allah was thinking of a

horn, and he ‫ ﷺ‬commanded that a bell be
made and it was done.
Then 'Abdullah bin Zaid had a dream. He

said: "I saw a man wearing two green
garments, carrying a bell. I said to him, 'O
slave of Allah, will you sell the bell?' He
said; 'What will you do with it?' I said, 'I will
call (the people) to prayer.' He said, 'Shall I
68The one who calls out the Adhan.

69Sunan Abu Dawud 498. Graded Hasan
according to Shaikh Al-Albani.
50
not tell you of something better than that?'
I said, 'What is it?' he said,
'Say: Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar, Allahu

Akbar Allahu Akbar; Ash-hadu an la ilaha
illallah, Ash-hadu an la ilaha illallah; Ash-
hadu anna Muhammadan Rasulullah,
Ash-hadu anna Muhammadan
Rasulullah; Hayya 'alas-salah, Hayya
'alas-salah; Hayya 'alal-falah, Hayya 'alal-
falah; Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar; La ilaha
illallah.
(Allah is The Most Great, Allah is The Most

Great; Allah is The Most Great, Allah is The
Most Great; I bear witness that none has
the right to be worshipped but Allah, I bear
witness that none has the right to be
worshipped but Allah; I bear witness that
Muhammed is the Messenger of Allah, I
bear witness that Muhammed is the
Messenger of Allah; Come to the Prayer,
Come to the Prayer; Come to the
prosperity, Come to the prosperity; Allah is
the Most great, Allah is the Most Great;
None has the right to be worshipped but
Allah)."70
'Abdullah bin Zaid went out and came to

the Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺ‬, and told him
70 The Adhan as we hear it now, was introduced in

the first year (1 AH) itself, according to the better
opinion. (Dr.Mahdi Rizqullah Ahmed, A Biography
of the Prophet of Islam In the Light of the Original
Sources An Analytical Study, Vol.1, p.341)
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what he had seen. He said, "O Messenger
of Allah, I saw a man wearing two green
garments carrying a bell," and he told him
the story.
The Messenger of Allah said, "Your

companion has had a dream. Go out with
Bilal to the Mosque and teach it to him, for
he has a louder voice than you." I
('Abdullah) went out with Bilal to the
mosque, and I started teaching him the
words and he was calling them out.
'Umar ibn Al-Khattab heard the voice and

came out saying, "O Messenger of Allah! By
Allah, I saw the same (dream) as him."
(Hasan) Abu 'Ubaid said: "Abu Bakr Al-

Hakami told me that 'Abdullah bin Zaid Al-
Ansaari said concerning that: 'I praise
Allah, the Possessor of majesty and honor,
A great deal of praise for the Adhan. Since
the news of it came to me from Allah, so
due to it, I was honored by the information.
During the three nights. Each of which
increased me in honor.'"71
Narrated Ibn Ùmar :
“When the Muslims arrived at Madinah,

they used to assemble for the prayer, and
used to guess the time for it. During those
days, the practice of Adhan for the prayers
71Sunan Ibn Majah 706. Hasan according to

Shaikh Al-Albani.
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had not been introduced yet. Once they
discussed this problem regarding the call
for prayer. Some people suggested the use
of a bell like the Christians, others
proposed a trumpet like the horn used by
the Jews, but Ùmar was the first to
suggest that a man should call (the people)
for the prayer; so Allah's Messenger ‫ﷺ‬
ordered Bilal to get up and pronounce the
Adhan for prayers.”72
‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar

reported:
“The Messenger of Allah ‫ ﷺ‬had two
Mu'addhins, Bilal and 'Abdullah bin Umm
Maktum, who (latter) was blind”. 73
The Virtue of Calling Out The

Adhan
Yahya narrated it on the authority of his
uncle that he had been sitting in the
company of Mu'awiya bin Abu Sufyan
when the Mu'adhdhin called (Muslims) to
prayer.
Mu'awiya said:

73 Sahih Muslim 380a.
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I heard the Messenger of Allah (‫ )ﷺ‬saying
The Mu'adhdhins will have the longest
necks on the Day of Resurrection. 74
74 Sahih Muslim 387.
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Virtue of Answering The
Mu’adhdhin With Certainty of
Imaan
An-Nasr bin Sufyan narrated that he

heard Abu Hurairah say:
"We were with the Messenger of Allah (‫)ﷺ‬

and Bilal stood up and gave the call. When
he fell silent the Messenger of Allah (‫)ﷺ‬
said: 'Whoever says the same as this (what
the Mu'adhdhin) with certainty, he will
enter Paradise.75
75Sunan An-Nasa’I 674, Sahih according to

Shaikh Al-Albani.
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Bilal Falls Ill In Madinah
Narrated Àisha :
When Allah's Messenger ‫ ﷺ‬reached
Madinah, Abu Bakr and Bilal became ill.
When Abu Bakr's fever got worse, he
would recite (this poetic verse):
"Everybody is staying alive with his
people, yet death is nearer to him than
his shoe laces."
And Bilal, when his fever deserted him,
would recite:
"Would that I could stay overnight in a
valley wherein I would be surrounded
by Idhkhir and Jalil (kinds of good-
smelling grass). Would that one day I could
drink the water of the Majanna, and would
that (the two mountains) Shama
and Tafil would appear to me!”
The Prophet ‫ﷺ‬ said, "O Allah!
Curse Shaiba bin Rabià,Ùtba bin Rabià
and Umaiyya bin Khalaf as they turned us
out of our land to the land of epidemics."
Allah's Messenger ‫ ﷺ‬then said, "O Allah!
Make us love Madinah as we love Makkah
or even more than that. O Allah! Give
blessings in our Saa’ and our Mudd
(measures symbolizing food) and make the
climate of Madinah suitable for us, and
divert its fever towards Al-Juhfa."
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‘Aisha added: “When we reached Madinah,
it was the unhealthiest of Allah's lands,
and the valley of Bathan (the valley of
Madinah) used to flow with
impure coloured water”.76
Ummul-Mumineen ‘Aisha:
“When the Messenger of Allah came to
Madinah it was the most fever-infested
land on earth, and his companions
suffered severely from it, though Allah
protected His Messenger from that. ‘Aamir
bin Fuhayra- the freed slave of Abu Bakr
and Bilal, were with him in one house
when the fever attacked them, and I came
in to visit them, for the veil had not then
been ordered for us. Only Allah knows how
much they suffered from the fever. I came
to my father and asked him how he fared
and he said:
Any man might be greeted by his family in
the morning
While death was nearer than the thong of
his sandal.
I thought that my father did not know

what he was saying. Then I went to ‘Aamir
bin Fuhayra and asked him how he was
and he said:
I have experienced death before actually

tasting it:
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The coward's death comes upon him as
he sits.
Every man resists it ·with all his might
Like the ox who protects his body with his
horns.
I thought that ‘Aamir did not know what

he was saying. Bilal when the fever left
him lay prostrate in a corner of the house.
Then he lifted up his
voice and said:
Shall I ever spend a night again in

Fakhkh77
With sweet herbs and thyme around me?
Will the day dawn when I come down to
the waters of Majanna
Shall I ever see Shama and Tafil again?
I told the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬what they had said

and he remarked that they were delirious
and out of their minds with a high
temperature. He ‫ ﷺ‬said, "O Allah, make
Madinah as dear to us as Makkah and
even dearer! And bless to us its Sa’a and
Mudd (measures of food), and carry its
fever to Mahya'a." Mahya'a is Al-Juhfa78.'”
77 Fakhkh is a place outside Makkah. Majanna in

the lower part of Makkah was a market of the
Arabs in pagan days. (Alfred Guillaume, p.280,
Translation of Sirat Ibn Ishaq)
78 It was once a large village with a pulpit on the
road from Madinah to Makkah about four stages

distant from the latter. It was the rendezvous of
the Egyptians and Syrians when they wished to
avoid Madinah. (Translation taken from Sirat
58
Rasulullah of Ibn Ishaq translated by Alfred
Guillaume, p.280.)
Sahih Ibn Hibban 5600, and Musnad Ahmad
24360,25856, has a similar narration with very
little variation of wordings, which was declared
Sahih by Shaikh Shuaib Al-Arnauut.
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Bilal-The Personal Attendant of
The Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
Narrated Abdullah Al-Hawzani:
I met Bilal, the Mu'adhdhin of the

Messenger of Allah (‫ )ﷺ‬at Aleppo, and said:
Bilal, tell me, what was the financial
position of the Messenger of Allah (‫?)ﷺ‬
He said: He had nothing. It was I who

managed it on his behalf since the day
Allah made him Prophet of Allah (‫ )ﷺ‬until
he died. When a Muslim man came to him
and he found him naked, he ordered me (to
clothe him). I would go, borrow (some
money), and purchase a cloak for him. I
would then clothe him and feed him.
A man from the polytheists met me and

said: I am well off, Bilal. Do not borrow
money from anyone except me. So I did
accordingly. One day when I performed
ablution and stood up to make call to
prayer, the same polytheist came along
with a body of merchants.
When he saw me, he said: O Abyssinian. I

said: I am at your service. He met me with
unpleasant looks and said harsh words to
me. He asked me: Do you know how many
days remain in the completion of this
month? I replied: The time is near. He said:
Only four days remain in the completion of
this month. I shall then take that which is
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due from you (i.e. loan), and then shall
return you to tend the sheep as you did
before. I began to think in my mind what
people think in their minds (on such
occasions). When I offered the night
prayer, the Messenger of Allah (‫ )ﷺ‬returned
to his family. I sought permission from him
and he gave me permission.
I said: Messenger of Allah, may my parents

be sacrificed for you, the polytheist from
whom I used to borrow money said to me
such-and-such. Neither you nor I have
anything to pay him for me, and he will
disgrace me. So give me permission to run
away to some of those tribes who have
recently embraced Islam until Allah gives
His Apostle (‫ )ﷺ‬something with which he
can pay (the debt) for me. So I came out
and reached my house. I placed my sword,
waterskin (or sheath), shoes and shield
near my head. When dawn broke, I
intended to be on my way.
All of a sudden I saw a man running

towards me and calling: Bilal, return to the
Messenger of Allah (‫)ﷺ‬. So I went till I
reached him. I found four mounts kneeling
on the ground with loads on them. I sought
permission.
The Messenger of Allah (‫ )ﷺ‬said to me: Be

glad, Allah has made arrangements for the
payment (of your debt). He then asked:
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Have you not seen the four mounts
kneeling on the ground?
I replied: Yes. He said: You may have these

mounts and what they have on them.
There are clothes and food on them,
presented to me by the ruler of Fadak.
Take them away and pay off your debt. I
did so.
He then mentioned the rest of the tradition.

I then went to the mosque and found that
the Messenger of Allah (‫ )ﷺ‬was sitting
there. I greeted him.
He asked: What benefit did you have from

your property? I replied: Allah Most High
paid everything which was due from the
Messenger of Allah (‫)ﷺ‬. Nothing remains
now.
He asked: Did anything remain (from that

property)? I said: Yes. He said: Look, if you
can give me some comfort from it, for I
shall not visit any member of my family
until you give me some comfort from it.
When the Messenger of Allah (‫ )ﷺ‬offered the
night prayer, he called me and said: What
is the position of that which you had with
you (i.e. property)?
I said: I still have it, no one came to me.

The Messenger of Allah (‫ )ﷺ‬passed the
night in the mosque.
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He then narrated the rest of the tradition.
Next day when he offered the night prayer,
he called me and asked: What is the
position of that which you had (i.e. the rest
of the property)?
I replied: Allah has given you comfort from

it, Messenger of Allah. He said: Allah is
Most Great, and praised Allah, fearing lest
he should die while it was with him. I then
followed him until he came to his wives and
greeted each one of them and finally he
came to his place where he had to pass the
night. This is all for which you asked me.79
Narrated Bilal:
Ziyadah al-Kindi reported on the
authority of Bilal that he (Bilal) came to
the Messenger of Allah (‫ )ﷺ‬to inform him
about the dawn prayer. Aisha kept Bilal
engaged in a matter which she asked him
till the day was bright and it became fairly
light. Bilal then stood up and called him
to prayer and called him repeatedly. The
Messenger of Allah (‫ )ﷺ‬did not yet come
out. When he came out, he led the people
in prayer and he (Bilal) informed him that
Aisha had kept him engaged in a matter
which she asked him till it became fairly
light; hence he became late in reaching
79Sunan Abi Dawood 3055, Sahih in chain

according to Shaikh Al-Albani.
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him (in time). He (Bilal) said: Messenger of
Allah, the dawn became fairly bright. He
said: If the dawn became brighter than it
is now, I would pray them (the two
rak'ahs of the sunnah prayer), offer them
well and in a more beautiful manner.80
80Sunan Abi Dawud 1257, Sahih according to Al-

Albani.
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Bilal Walking Alongside The
Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
Anas said:
"While the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬was in one of our
palm groves where the trees belonged to
Abu Talha, he went out to answer a call of
nature. Bilal was walking behind him. The
Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬honoured him by asking him to
walk at his side.
The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬passed by a grave and stood
there until Bilal reached him. he said, 'Woe
to you, Bilal. Did you hear what I heard?'
He replied, 'I did not hear anything.' He ‫ﷺ‬
said, 'The man in the grave is being
punished.' He found that it was a Jew." 81
81Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 853. Sahih according to Al-

Albani.
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Permission To Fight
Once the Prophet Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬and his

Sahaba settled in Madinah, Allah revealed
verses in The Quran, granting Muslims the
permission to fight their oppressive
enemies and opponents.
After this the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬formed small

bands of Sahaba with an intention to raid
and attack the caravans of The Quraish,
and secure and survey the borders of
Madina. These raiding parties would also
make alliances with neighbouring tribes
and call others to Islam.
Allah said in The Quran:
‫علَىه‬ َ‫ن َه‬

َ ‫ّللا‬ ‫أُذِنَه ِللَذِينَه يُقَاتَلُونَه بِأَنَ ُه ْهم ظُ ِل ُموا ۖه َوإِ َه‬
‫ص ِر ِه ْهم لَقَدِيره‬ْ َ‫ن‬
“Permission to fight is given to those (i.e.
believers against disbelievers), who are
fighting them, (and) because they
(believers) have been wronged, and surely,
Allah is Able to give them (believers)
victory.” ( Quran 22:39)
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Sa’d bin Mu’adh Threatens
The Quraish And Umaiyya bin
Khalaf
Narrated Àbdullah bin Masùd:

Sa`d bin Muàdh came to Makkah with the
intention of performing Ùmra, and stayed
at the house of [his close friend] Umaiyya
bin Khalaf Abi Safwan, for Umaiyya
himself used to stay at Sa`d’s house when
he passed by Madinah on his way to
Shaam. Umaiyya said to Sa`d, “Will you
wait till midday when the people are (at
their homes), then you may go and perform
the Tawaf round the Ka`ba?”
So, while Sa`d was going around the
Ka`bah, Abu Jahl came and asked, “Who is
that who is performing Tawaf?” Sa`d
replied, “I am Sa`d.” Abu Jahl said, “Are
you circumambulating the Ka`ba safely
although you have given refuge to
Muhammad and his companions?” Sa`d
said, “Yes,” and they started quarreling.
Umaiyya said to Sa`d, “Don’t shout at Abil-
Hakam (i.e. Abu Jahl), for he is chief of the
valley (of Makkah).” Sa`d then said (to Abu
Jahl). ‘By Allah, if you prevent me from
performing the Tawaf of the Ka`bah, I will
spoil your trade with Shaam.” Umaiyya
kept on saying to Sa`d, “Don’t raise your
voice.” and kept on taking hold of him.
Sa`d became furious and said, (to
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Umaiyya), “Be away from me, for I have
heard Muhammad saying that he will kill
you.” Umaiyya said, “Will he kill me?” Sa`d
said, “Yes,.” Umaiyya said, “By Allah!
When Muhammad says a thing, he never
tells a lie.”
Umaiyya went to his wife and said to her,
“Do you know what my brother from
Yathrib (i.e. Madinah) has said to me?” She
said, “What has he said?” He said, “He
claims that he has heard Muhammad
claiming that he will kill me.” She said, By
Allah! Muhammad never tells a lie.”
So when the disbelievers started to proceed
for Badr (Battle) and declared war (against
the Muslims), his wife said to him, “Don’t
you remember what your brother from
Yathrib told you?" Umaiyya decided not to
go but Abu Jahl said to him, "You are from
the nobles of the valley (of Makkah), so you
should accompany us for a day or two." He
went with them and thus Allah got him
killed.”82
In another narration reported by
Àbdullah bin Masùd :
[….] Sa`d said, "O Umaiyya, stop that! By

Allah, I have heard Allah's Messenger
predicting that the Muslim will kill you."
Umaiyya asked, "In Makkah?" Sa`d said, "I
do not know." Umaiyya was greatly scared
68
by that news. When Umaiyya returned to
his family, he said to his wife, "O Umm
Safwan! Don't you know what Sa`d told
me? "She said, "What has he told you?" He
replied, "He claims that Muhammad has
informed them (i.e. companions that they
will kill me. I asked him, 'In Makkah?' He
replied, 'I do not know." Then Umaiyya
added, "By Allah, I will never go out of
Makkah."
But when the day of (the Ghazwa of) Badr

came, Abu Jahl called the people to war,
saying, "Go and protect your caravan." But
Umaiyya disliked to go out (of Makkah).
Abu Jahl came to him and said, "O Abu
Safwan! If the people see you staying
behind though you are the chief of the
people of the Valley, then they will remain
behind with you."
Abu Jahl kept on urging him to go until he

(i.e. Umaiyya) said, "As you have forced me
to change my mind, by Allah, I will buy the
best camel in Makkah. Then Umaiyya said
(to his wife). "O Umm Safwan, prepare
what I need (for the journey)." She said to
him, "O Abu Safwan! Have you forgotten
what your Yathribi brother told you?" He
said, "No, but I do not want to go with them
but for a short distance." So when Umaiyya
went out, he used to tie his camel wherever
69
he camped. He kept on doing that till Allah
caused him to be killed at Badr. 83
83Second part of the narration from Sahih Al-

Bukhari 3950. The first part is very similar to the
above Hadith.
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The Battle of Badr84
The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬and around three hundred
nineteen85 Sahaba went to intercept and
capture the caravan of Abu Sufyan
returning from Shaam. The caravan
headed by Abu Sufyan had great wealth
and was guarded by forty men. It was the
same caravan which they planned to
attack in Dhil-Ushaira.
Abu Sufyan alerted the Makkans about a

band of the Muslims planning to attack his
caravan86 and alerted the Quraish. The
Quraish reached the oasis of Badr with a
thousand and three hundred men, led by
Abu Jahl and other disbelieving chiefs to
teach the Muslims a lesson for raiding and
their caravans.
Meanwhile, Abu Sufyan took a detour and
reached Makkah safely. ‘Utbah bin Rabi’ah
advised Abu Jahl against going into battle
with the Muslims, and he asked Abu Jahl
to leave Muhammad’s ‫ ﷺ‬fate to the Arabs.
Abu Jahl chided him and accused him of
cowardice and persuaded the polytheists
to go into battle.
84 Date of the final clash: 13 March 624 CE/17

Ramadan, 2 AH.
85Sahih Muslim 1763.
86 Abu Sufyan had his own scouts to gather
intelligence and observe enemy movements.
71
The Prophet's ‫ ﷺ‬army had a total of three
hundred and thirteen or three hundred
twenty people.
The battle began and Allah sent a

thousand Angels to assist the Muslims.
The chief of the polytheists of Makkah, Abu

Jahl87, was nearly killed by two young boys
from Madinah, Mu’adh bin Al-Afra and
Mu’adh bin Amr . He was finally
finished off by Abdullah bin Masood
.
The battle ended in a great victory for the

Muslims. Fourteen Muslims were martyred
and seventy Makkan disbelievers were
killed with many of their chiefs lying slain
on the battlefield. Seventy Makkans were
captured as prisoners of war. The Prophet
‫ ﷺ‬freed them after taking ransoms from
them. All those who couldn’t pay the
ransom were made to teach ten Muslim
children to read and write and then leave.
Bilal killed his former tormentor

Umaiyya bin Khalaf with his own hands,
and great are the ways of Allah!
87Abul Hakam Amr bin Hisham was his actual

name, but the Muslims called him Abu Jahl
(Father of ignorance).
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The End of Umaiyya bin Khalaf-
The One Who Had Tortured Bilal
bin Rabah
Narrated Àbdullah:
The first Surah in which a prostration
was mentioned, was Surah An-Najm (The
Star). Allah's Messenger ‫ ﷺ‬prostrated
(while reciting it), and everybody behind
him prostrated except a man whom I saw
taking a hand-full of dust in his hand and
prostrated on it. Later I saw that man
killed as an infidel, and he was Umaiyya
bin Khalaf.88
Abdullah ibn Mas’ood narrated:

(That Sa’d bin Mu’adh informed Umaiyya
bin Khalaf that the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬had
predicted that the Muslims would kill
Umaiyya, so Umaiyya promised himself
never to leave Makkah.)89
But when the day of (the Ghazwa of) Badr

came, Abu Jahl called the people to war,
saying, "Go and protect your caravan."
But Umaiyya disliked to go out (of
Makkah). Abu Jahl came to him and said,
"O Abu Safwan! If the people see you
staying behind though you are the chief of
88 Sahih Al-Bukhari 4863, 3972. This incident

happened in Makkah and shows the arrogance of
Umaiyya bin Khalaf, the disbeliever.
89 Summarized.
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the people of the Valley, then they will
remain behind with you."
Abu Jahl kept on urging him to go until

he (i.e. Umaiyya) said, "As you have forced
me to change my mind, by Allah, I will
buy the best camel in Mecca. Then
Umaiyya said (to his wife). "O Umm
Safwan, prepare what I need (for the
journey)." She said to him, "O Abu
Safwan! Have you forgotten what your
Yathribi brother told you?" He said, "No,
but I do not want to go with them but for
a short distance." So when Umaiyya went
out, he used to tie his camel wherever he
camped. He kept on doing that till Allah
caused him to be killed at Badr. 90
Narrated Àbdur-Rahman bin Àuf
:
I got an agreement written between me
and Umaiyya bin Khalaf that Umaiyya
would look after my property (or family) in
Makkah and I would look after his in
Madinah.
When I mentioned the word ‘Ar-Rahman’
in the documents, Umaiyya said, “I do not
know ‘Ar-Rahman.’ Write down to me
your name, (with which you called
yourself) in the Pre-Islamic Period of
90Second part of the narration from Sahih Al-

Bukhari 3950. The first part is very similar to the
above Hadith.
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Ignorance.” So, I wrote my name ‘ Àbdu
Àmr’.
On the day (of the battle) of Badr, when
all the people went to sleep, I went up the
hill to protect him. Bilal91 saw him (i.e.
Umaiyya) and went to a gathering of
Ansaar and said, “(Here is) Umaiyya bin
Khalaf! Woe to me if he escapes!”
So, a group of Ansaar went out with Bilal
to follow us (Àbdur-Rahman
and Umaiyya). Being afraid that they
would catch us, I left Umaiyya’s son for
them to keep them busy but the Ansaar
killed the son and insisted on following
us. Umaiyya was a fat man, and when
they approached us, I told him to kneel
down, and he knelt, and I laid myself on
him to protect him, but the Ansaar killed
him by passing their swords underneath
me, and one of them injured my foot with
his sword.
(The sub narrator said, “Àbdur-Rahman
used to show us the trace of the wound
on the back of his foot.”)92
91 Bilal bin Rabah was a slave of Umaiyya bin

Khalaf in Makkah. When Bilal bin Rabah accepted
Islam, his master Umaiyya bin Khalaf tortured
him incessantly for this. Later on Abu Bakr As-
Siddeeq freed Bilal by buying him from his master.
It was in this context that Bilal bin Rabah vented
his anger by killing Umaiyya bin Khalaf.
76
Narrated Jubair bin Mutìm
:
The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬talked about war prisoners
of Badr saying, “Had Al-Mutìm bin ‘Adi93
been alive and interceded with me for
these mean people, I would have freed
them for his sake.”94
‘Abdur Rahman bin 'Auf

reported:
That Umaiyya bin Khalaf said to me, while
I was between him and his son, holding
them by the hands, "'Abdul-Ilah, who is
that man in your army wearing an ostrich
feather on his chest as a mark of
identification?" I said, "That is Hamza bin
'Abdul Muttalib." Umaiyya said, "He is the
one who wrought such havoc on us."
"As I was leading them on, Bilal bin
Rabah saw him with me, Umaiyya having
been the one who had so persecuted him
for his adoption of Islam. Bilal shouted
out, "Hey, there's that polytheist-in-chief
93 Mut’im bin ‘Adi, a chief of the Banu Nawfal

clan, had conferred many gestures of kindness
towards the Prophet Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬and the
Muslims. It is for this reason that the Prophet
Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬said that he would have accepted
Mut’im bin ‘Adi’s intercession on behalf of the
prisoners of Badr. Mut’im bin ‘Adi did not accept
Islam.
94 Sahih Al-Bukhari 3139, 4023.
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Umaiyya bin Khalaf! I'll not live on if he
does!"
I responded, "Now Bilal, he's my
prisoner." "I'll not live on if he does," Bilal
insisted. He (Bilal) then began shouting at
the top of his voice, "O partisans of Allah,
here's Umaiyya bin Khalaf, the worst
polytheist of all! I will not live on if he
does!"
Men soon surrounded us till they had us
in a sort of enclosure, with me protecting
him all the while. Then one man took his
sword and struck the leg of Umaiyya's
son, making him fall down. Umaiyya then
let out a cry such as I never heard before.
I told him to try to escape, though there
was no chance of this, and I could do
nothing for him. After that our men fell on
them with their swords and killed them."
The account concludes, "'Abdur Rahman
used to say, 'May Allah have mercy on
Bilal, he deprived me of both my chain-
mail and my two prisoners!"'.95
The Jihad of Bilal Alongside The

Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺ‬
Bilal participated in the battles of Badr,
Uhud, Al-Khandaq and all the other
95Seerat Ibn Ishaq (3/180), Graded as Sahih by

Dr.Muhammad As-Suyani.
78
battles of the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬.96 He was the
Mu’adhdhin of the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬in almost all
of these events.
96 At-Tabaqat Al-Kubra of Ibn Sa’ad 3/180.
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Bilal Overslept And The Muslims
Missed Their Fajr
It was narrated from 'Abdullah bin Abi
Qatadah that his father said:
"We were with the Messenger of Allah (‫)ﷺ‬

when some of the people said: 'Why do you
not stop with us to rest awhile, 0
Messenger of Allah (‫ '?)ﷺ‬He said: 'I am
afraid that you will sleep and miss the
prayer.' Bilal said:'I will wake you up.' So
they lay down and slept, and Bilal leaned
back on his mount.
Then the Messenger of Allah (‫ )ﷺ‬woke up

when the sun had already started to rise,
and he said: 'O Bilal, what about what you
told us?' He said: 'I have never slept like
that before.'
The Messenger of Allah (‫ )ﷺ‬said: 'Allah, the

Mighty and Sublime, takes your souls
when He wills and sends them back when
He wills.' Stand up 0 Bilal and call the
people to prayer.' Then Bilal stood up and
& called the Adhan, and they performed
Wudu' - that is, when the sun had risen
(fully) - "then he stood and lead them in
prayer."97
97Sunan An-Nasa'i 846. Sahih according to

Shaikh Al-Albani.
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Bilal With The Messenger of Allah
‫ ﷺ‬On Eid
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:
The Prophet (‫ )ﷺ‬stood on the day of the
breaking of the fast ('Id) and offered prayer.
He began the prayer before the sermon. He
then addressed the people. When the
Prophet (‫ )ﷺ‬finished the sermon, he
descended (from the pulpit) and went to
women. He gave them an exhortation while
he was leaning on the hand of Bilal. Bilal
was spreading his garment in which
women were putting alms; some women
put their rings and others other things.98
98Sunan Abi Dawud 1141. Sahih according to

Shaikh Al-Albani.
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Bilal During The Conquest of
Makkah
After the three hundred and sixty idols
around the Ka’bah were razed and broken.
The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬entered the Ka’bah, and
prayed some units of prayer and then
circumambulated the Ka’bah. All this while
Bilal was with the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬.
Imam Ibn Katheer mentioned: Bilal bin
Rabah gave the Adhan on the day of the
conquest of Makkah on the Ka’bah, and
when the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬passed away,Bilal
stopped giving the Adhan.99
99 Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah 7/104. Shaikh Shuaib

Al-Arnauut in his Takhreej of Siyar A’lam An-
Nubala (1/356) declared the narration of Bilal
giving the Adhan on the Ka’bah on the Day of
Fath-Makkah Mursal (chain stops at a Tabai).
Thus it is weak, however there is some strength in
those reports. See Dr.Mahdi Rizqullah Ahmed’s
comment in Vol.2 p.707, footnote 86, of his book
‘A Biography of the Prophet of Islam In the Light of
the Original Sources An Analytical Study’.
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Virtues of The ‘Ajamis100 Who
Accepted Islam Prior To The
Chief of The Best Arab Tribe
'Aidh bin ‘Amr reported that (after
Makkah was conquered and Abu Sufyan
accepted Islam just a few hours before
the Muslim army entered Makkah) Abu
Sufyan (Sakhr bin Harb) came across
Salman (The Persian), Suhaib and Bilal
(The Abyssinian) in the presence of a
group of persons.
They said: “By Allah, the sword of Allah

did not reach the neck of the enemy of
Allah as it was required to reach”.
Thereupon Abu Bakr said: Do you say
this to the old man of the Quraish and
their chief?
Then he came to Allah's Messenger and

informed him of this. Thereupon he (the
Prophet ‫ )ﷺ‬said: Abu Bakr, you have
perhaps annoyed them and if you
annoyed them you have in fact annoyed
your Lord.
So Abu Bakr came to them and said: O

my brothers, I have annoyed you. They
said: No, our brother, may Allah forgive
you.101
100 Non-Arabs.
101 Sahih Muslim 2504.
83
In this Hadith we see that greatness and
virtue in Islam is not by being from the
Arabs or the Ajamis (Non-Arabs). Salman
Al-Farisi and Bilal bin Rabah Al-Habashi
were of the non-Arab nations, and Suhaib
bin Sinan was not from the Quraish, yet
they- because of their early acceptance of
Islam and their services to the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬-
were held in high regards by the Prophet
‫ﷺ‬, so much so that even when the three
remarked regarding Abu Sufyan-The Chief
of The Best Arab Tribe (Quraish) and a
cousin of Prophet Muhammad ‫ﷺ‬- for not
being able to kill him, the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬did
not reprimand them.
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Allah’s Messenger ‫ ﷺ‬Prays Inside
The Ka’bah
Narrated Nafi` from Àbdullah
:
Allah's Messenger ‫ ﷺ‬came to Makkah
through its higher region [through Kada
which was at the upper part of Makkah.]
on the day of the Conquest (of Makkah)
riding his she-camel on which Usama was
riding behind him. Bilal and Ùthman bin
Talha, one of the servants of the Ka`ba
[who was one of the Al-Hajabah (who keep
the key of the gate of the Ka'bah)], were
also accompanying him till he made his
camel kneel in the Mosque and ordered
the latter to bring the key of the Ka`bah.
He ‫ ﷺ‬opened the door of the Ka`bah and
Allah's Messenger ‫ ﷺ‬entered in the
company of Usama, Bilal and Ùthman,
and stayed in it for a long period.
When he came out, the people rushed to
it, and Àbdullah bin Ùmar was the first
to enter it and found Bilal standing
behind the door. He asked Bilal, "Where
did the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬offer his prayer?" He
pointed to the place where he had offered
his prayer. Àbdullah said, "I forgot to ask
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him how many Rakàt he had
performed."102
102Sahih Al-Bukhari 2988. The portion in the

parenthesis have been taken from Sahih Al-
Bukhari 4289 and 4290.
86
Bilal’s Hajj With The Messenger of
Allah ‫ﷺ‬
Bilal bin Rabah performed the Hajjatul-
Wada’ (The Farewell Hajj) with the
Messenger of Allah ‫ ﷺ‬and even there he
was the Mu’adhdhin of the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬.103
Umm Al-Husain reported:
I performed Hajj along with Allah's

Messenger ‫ ﷺ‬on the occasion of the
Farewell Pilgrimage and saw him when he
flung pebbles at Jamrat Al-'Aqaba and
returned while he was riding the camel,
and Bilal and Usama were with him.
One of them was leading his camel, while

the other was raising his cloth over the
head of Allah's Messenger ‫ ﷺ‬to protect
him from the sun. She (further) said:
Allah's Messenger ‫ ﷺ‬said so many things,
and I heard him saying: If a slave having
some limb of his missing and having dark
complexion is appointed to govern you
according to the Book of Allah the
Exalted. listen to him and obey him. 104
103 See Sahih Muslim 1218a.

104 Sahih Muslim 1298a.
87
Bilal Was Close To The Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
Even In The Final Illness of The
Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
Narrated ‘Abdullah ibn Zam'ah
:
When the illness of the Messenger of Allah
‫ ﷺ‬became serious while I was with him
among a group of people, Bilal called him
for prayer. He ‫ ﷺ‬said: Ask someone to lead
the people in prayer. So ‘Abdullah ibn
Zam'ah went out and found that ‘Umar
was present among the people and Abu
Bakr was not there. I said: ‘Umar, get up
and lead the people in prayer.
So he (‘Umar) came forward and uttered

"Allah is Most Great". When the
Messenger of Allah (‫ )ﷺ‬heard his voice, as
‘Umar had a loud voice, he said: Where is
Abu Bakr? Allah does not allow that, and
the Muslims too; Allah does not allow
that, and the Muslims too.
So he sent for Abu Bakr. He came after

‘Umar had led the people in that prayer.
He (Abu Bakr) then led the people in
prayer (again).105
105Sunan Abi Dawud 4660. Hasan according to

Shaikh Al-Albani.
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The Journey To Allah, Last Days
of The Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
During the initial days of Safar 11 AH, the

Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬went out to Uhud and observed
a farewell prayer for the martyrs.
On Monday, 29th Safar, 11 AH, he ‫ﷺ‬

participated in the funeral rites in Al-Baqi.
On the way back he ‫ ﷺ‬began having a
headache which started to intensify as
days passed. He ‫ ﷺ‬led the Muslims in
prayer for eleven out of thirteen or fourteen
days during his illness.
The last week of his ‫ ﷺ‬life, he ‫ ﷺ‬expressed

his desire to live in the room of Aisha bint
Abu Bakr , and thus he stayed
there.
On Wednesday, five days before his death,

his ‫ ﷺ‬temperature rose very high and he
fainted from severe pain. He ‫ ﷺ‬got seven
water pots poured on him and then he
gained strength to go to the Masjid. He
advised the Sahaba who gathered around
him and also offered himself to people to
repay any injuries he might have had
inflicted on them106. He ‫ ﷺ‬continued
106The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬wanted to settle everything with

regards to the rights of human beings, he did not
want to leave the world in a state that he had
89
advising them even after the Dhuhr Salah.
On Thursday, the Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺ‬

recommended the Muslims to remove the
Jews, Christians and polytheists from the
Arabian peninsula107. He ‫ ﷺ‬reminded the
Muslims to honour and entertain the
delegations just as he ‫ ﷺ‬used to do.
A day before his death on Sunday, he ‫ ﷺ‬set

all his slaves free and gave the last seven
dinars he had and his weapons in charity.
That very night Aisha bint Abu Bakr had to
borrow some oil from her neighbour to light
her oil lantern. The Prophet's ‫ ﷺ‬coat of
armour was mortgaged with a Jew for a
measure of barley.
oppressed anyone unjustly, I would like to share

something very interesting in this regard.
Narrated Usayd ibn Hudayr,: AbdurRahman ibn
AbuLayla, quoting Usayd ibn Hudayr, a man of the
Ansar, said that while he was given to jesting and
was talking to the people and making them laugh,
the Prophet (‫ )ﷺ‬poked him under the ribs with a
stick. He said: Let me take retaliation. He said: Take
retaliation. He said: You are wearing a shirt but I
am not. The Prophet (‫ )ﷺ‬then raised his shirt and
the man embraced him and began to kiss his side.
Then he said: This is what I wanted, Messenger of
Allah! Sunan Abi Dawud 5224. The chain of this
narration is Sahih according to Shaikh Al-Albani.
107 It has been narrated by 'Umar bin Al-Khattab
that he heard the Messenger of Allah (‫ )ﷺ‬say: “I will

expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian
Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim”.
Sahih Muslim 1767a.
90
Whilst Abu Bakr As-Siddeeq
was leading the Fajr Salah on Monday, the
last day of the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬, the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
looked through Aisha's window by moving
her curtain. The Muslims were glad and
were almost taken away from their prayers.
The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬smiled and gestured them
to continue the prayer.
The headache of the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬was

actually an effect of the poison
administered by the Jewess of Khaibar
whose that had surfaced now.
The Prophet ‫ﷺ‬, whilst he was on Aisha's

bed, secretly informed Fatimah
that he would not recover from this illness
and that she would be the first one of his
family to follow him. Later on he ‫ ﷺ‬advised
his wives, and also kept reminding people
to keep up to their prayers.
The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬reclining on Aisha's chest,

brushed his teeth with a Siwak softened by
Aisha in her mouth. He ‫ ﷺ‬then
wiped his face with water and said 'La ilaha
illallaah, Inna lilmouti lisakaraat 108' (There
is no deity worthy of worship but Allah,
death is full of agonies).
The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬pointed towards the sky and
108
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said 'To The Most Exalted Companionship',
and he ‫ ﷺ‬passed away.
Umar ibn Al-Khattab Praising

Bilal bin Rabah
Narrated Jabir bin Àbdullah:

Ùmar used to say, "Abu Bakr is our chief,
and he manumitted our chief," meaning
Bilal.109
92
Ahadith Narrated by Bilal
Bilal bin Rabah narrated forty four

Ahadith, of them four are in the two Sahihs
(Al-Bukhari and Muslim), one is
Muttafiqun-‘Alaih (Agreed upon, found
both in Al-Bukhari and Muslim). Two
Hadiths are found only in Al-Bukhari, and
there is a Mawqoof narration (a narration
which reaches upto Bilal) in Muslim. And
from amongst those who narrated from
him are: Ibn ‘Umar, Abu ‘Uthman An-
Nahdi and Al-Aswad, and ‘Abdur Rahman
bin Abi Layla and a group (of people).110
110 Siyar ‘Alam An-Nubala (3/347,360).
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Bilal Leaves For Ash-Shaam After
The Death of Prophet Muhammad
‫ﷺ‬
Narrated Qais:
Bilal said to Abu Bakr, "If you have bought
me for yourself then keep me (for yourself),
but if you have bought me for Allah's Sake,
then leave me for Allah's Work." 111
After the death of Prophet ‫ﷺ‬, Bilal bin

Rabah wished to leave for Ash-Shaam and
participate in the ongoing Jihad (against
the Romans there). But Abu Bakr As-
Siddeeq did not want to part from Bilal so
he prevented him from leaving Madinah.
Thus Bilal said, “If you have bought me for
yourself then keep me (for yourself), but if
you have bought me for Allah's Sake, then
leave me for Allah's Work”, at this Abu
Bakr agreed and allowed Bilal to leave for
Ash-Shaam. Bilal died in Ash-Shaam in
the era of Umar ibn Al-Khattab in the year
twenty one A.H. 112 113

112 Summarized from Siyar ‘Alam An-Nubala.
113 It is also said that he may have died in the
17th,18th or 20th A.H. Perhaps in the Plague of

‘Amwas. See Tahdheeb Al-Kamaal of Al-Mizzi. It is
said that Bilal bin Rabah was a little over sixty
years old when he passed away.
94
Appendices To The Authentic
Biography of Bilal bin Rabah
95
Appendix 1
The False Story of Bilal
Giving Adhan In Madinah A
Long Time After The Death of
As-Subki recorded in his book Shifa As-
Siqam
Abu Darda narrated that: After the
conquest of Bait Al-Maqdis when Umar ibn
Al-Khattab arrived there, he was stationed
at Al-Jaabiyyah. Bilal requested Umar that
he wanted to stay in Ash-Shaam, Umar
granted him his request…
Then one day Bilal saw the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬in
his dream, and the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬said to him,
“What is this carelessness O Bilal?! Isn’t it
time for you to visit me O Bilal?” Bilal woke
up being sad and frightened. He gathered
his provisions and set out for Madinah on
his mount. On reaching there, Bilal visited
the grave of the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬and started
crying and wiping his face on the grave.
After a while Hasan and Husain- the
Prophet’s grandsons- came there and Bilal
hugged and kissed them. They said, “We
desire to hear the very Adhan which you
would call out in the times of the
Messenger of Allah in this Masjid”. Bilal
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went on top of the same spot where he
used to give the Adhan in the era of the
Prophet Muhammad ‫ﷺ‬.
When he said ‘Allahu Akbar, Allahu
Akbar’, Madinah shook (with excitement),
when he reached ‘Ashhadu An La ilaha Illa
Allah’, the excitement of the people
increased. When he said, ‘Ashhadu Anna
Muhammadar Rasoolullah’, the women
came out of their homes. The people
exclaimed, “Has the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬been sent
again?” People in Madinah cried so much
that day that they were not seen crying as
much except the day the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬died.
(Also in Tareekh Ad-Dimashq)
Hafidh Ad-Dahabi said after quoting the
narration: There is weakness in the chain
and it is Munkar. (in Siyar ‘Alam An-
Nubala)
Hafidh Ibn Abdul Hadi who is student of
Hafidh Ad-Dahabi and teacher of Ibn Rajab
Al-Hanbali refuted As-Subki by saying: It
is not proven to be Sahih and if for the sake
of an argument it is proven to be Sahih,
then it is not an evidence for visiting the
graves. (Sarim Al-Munki page no: 314)
Hafidh Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani said in the
biography of Ibraheem bin Mohammad bin
Sulaiman: “….This story is a clear
97
fabrication” (Lisan al-Mizan 1/107-108 no:
320).
Mulla Ali Qari Al-Hanafi said: The story of
traveling of Bilal towards Madinah after he
saw Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬in dream and then he called
out the Adhaan… This is a baseless story
and it is a clear fabrication. Ibn Hajar Al-
Makki was not informed on it (wasn’t
informed that it was false) as he mentioned
this Athar (narration) in his book on
Ziyarah. (Al-Mawduaat As-Sughra by
Mulla Ali Qari)114
114Source of the quotes of the ‘Ulama: Bilal bin

Rabah Dream & Then Visiting Prophet Grave |
Islam (systemoflife.com)
98
Appendix 2
Did Abu Dharr Al-Ghifari
Insult Bilal bin Rabah?
There is nothing authentically related
in the Ahadith that Abu Dharr insulted
Bilal bin Rabah for his race, all the
Ahadith mentioning ‘Bilal’ are weak.
Rather what is authentic is that Abu
Dharr did insult a black slave of his and
then the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬reprimanded him for
that.115
It was narrated that Abu Dharr
said:
“I exchanged words with another man (who
was black), whose mother was a non-Arab.
I insulted his mother (by saying ‘O son of a
black woman’), and he mentioned that to
the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬. He said to me, ‘Did you
trade insults with so and so?’ I said, ‘Yes.’
He said, ‘Did you insult his mother?’ I said,
‘Yes.’ He said, ‘You are a man in whom is
Jahiliyyah (ignorance)…’”116
According to another report: “…I said to
him, ‘O son of a black woman’,” and the
Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬said, “In you there is
115 Refer to this research on the very subject (in

Arabic): www.alukah.net/sharia/0/53636.
116 Narrated by Al-Bukhari, Al-Adab Al-Mufrad,
5590; Muslim, Al-Iman, 3140.
99
Jahiliyyah” – i.e., one of the
characteristics of Jahiliyyah. 117
Narrated Ma'rur:
I saw Abu Dhar wearing a Burd (garment)

and his slave too was wearing a Burd, so I
said (to Abu Dhar), "If you take this (Burda
of your slave) and wear it (along with
yours), you will have a nice suit (costume)
and you may give him another garment."
Abu Dhar said, "There was a quarrel
between me and another man whose
mother was a non-Arab and I called her
bad names. The man mentioned
(complained about) me to the Prophet. The
Prophet (‫ )ﷺ‬said, "Did you abuse so-and-
so?" I said, "Yes" He said, "Did you call his
mother bad names?" I said, "Yes". He said,
"You still have the traits of (the Pre-lslamic
period of) ignorance." I said. "(Do I still have
ignorance) even now in my old age?" He
said, "Yes, they (slaves or servants) are
your brothers, and Allah has put them
under your command. So the one under
whose hand Allah has put his brother,
should feed him of what he eats, and give
him dresses of what he wears, and should
not ask him to do a thing beyond his
capacity. And if at all he asks him to do a
hard task, he should help him therein." 118
117 Ibid.
100
The Prophet Muhammad ‫ ﷺ‬also said:
"Indeed there is no excellence for an Arab
over an Ajam (Non-Arab), nor an Ajam
(Non-Arab) over an Arab, nor a white
person over a black one, nor a black person
over a white one, except
through Taqwa (piety and obedience to
Allah)."119
119 Sahih: Related by Musnad Ahmad (5/411) and

it was authenticated by Ibn Taymiyyah in Kitabu'l-
Iqtida (Page. 69).
(abdurrahman.org/2014/01/29/evilsofnationalis
m/).
101
Appendix 3
Did Allah order the sun not
to rise until Bilal gives the
call to Adhan?
Question to Shaikh Muhammad Salih Al-
Munajjid:
I have heard lots of people saying,
especially in India, that once Bilal, due to
some of the Sahabah complaining about
his voice or his pronunciation in Adhan
(call to prayer), asked the permission for
someone else to call the adhan (of
Fajr/early morning). After he called it,
people got worried as a lot of time had
passed but the sun didn’t rise like
normal. So they went to the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬
and told him the same and he replied that
Allah has ordered the sun not to rise until
Bilal gives the call to Adhan.
Please let me now if there is any authentic

source where this incident of the sun not
rising because of Bilal (may Allah be
pleased with him) is mentioned.
Answer:
Praise be to Allah.
There is no proof that the sun was held
back for anyone except the Prophet of
102
Allah Yoosha‘ ibn Noon (peace be upon
him).
In fact the Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬stated that this did
not happen to anyone other than Yoosha‘
ibn Noon (peace be upon him). This is
seen in the hadeeth (narration) of Abu
Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him),
according to which the Prophet (peace
and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
“One of the Prophets went out on a
campaign… and he approached a town at
the time of ‘Asr (late afternoon) prayer, or
close to that time. He said to the sun: You
are under the command of Allah and I am
under the command of Allah. O Allah,
halt it for me for a while. So it was halted
for him until Allah granted him
victory.”120
In the version narrated by al-Imam
Ahmad in Al-Musnad (14/65) it says:
“The sun was not held back for any
person except Yoosha‘ (peace be upon
him) on the day he was marching to
Jerusalem.
Ash-Shaikh Al-Albani said:
This indicates that the sun was not held
back for anyone except for Yoosha‘ (peace
be upon him). This is indicative of the
120Narrated by Al-Bukhari (3124) and Muslim

(1747).
103
weakness of the reports which suggest
that happened for anyone else.
It is appropriate to quote what we have
come across concerning this …
Then the Shaikh mentioned what has
been narrated about the same being held
back for people other than Yoosha‘ ibn
Noon (peace be upon him) and explained
what is wrong with these reports. Then he
said:
To sum up, there is no Sahih (authentic)
report about the sun being held back at
all except this Sahih Hadith. End
quote.121
To conclude, we have not come across any
basis for the story about the sun being
held back from rising until Bilaal called
the adhan, in any Sahih or Da’if (weak)
report, or even in any fabricated (Mawdu’)
Hadith that is known.
It is not permissible to speak of such
things except on the basis of sound proof
and evidence. Otherwise it is speculation,
and speaking about Allah without
knowledge.
And Allah knows best.122
121 Al-Silsilah Al-Sahihah (no.202).

122islamqa.info/en/answers/150738/holding-
back-of-the-sun-until-adhan-was-called.
104
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The above book was compiled majorly
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Ahadith of the following Ulama and is
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-Imam Ibn Katheer, Shaikh Muhammad
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Arnauut, Dr.Muhammad As-Suyani,
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105
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-by Mohammed Thajammul Hussain

The materials and resources in this book may be

Arabia Before Islam 17

The Birth of Prophet Muhammad 19

Bilal bin Rabah Before Islam 20

The First Revelation Upon The 20

The Meeting with Waraqa bin 21

The Foremost People to Accept 22

The Beginning of Open Da’wah 24

‘Amr bin ‘Abasah’s Experience of 25

The People Who Publicly 27

Bilal bin Rabah Is Freed From 29

The Polytheists Did Not Want 31

Migration to Abyssinia (Al- 36

The Testing Days Bilal Spent 37

The Station of Bilal In Paradise 41

The Hijrah of Bilal 45

The Institution of The Adhan 47

The Virtue of Calling Out The 54

Bilal Falls Ill In Madinah 56

Bilal-The Personal Attendant of 60

Bilal Walking Alongside The 65

Sa’d bin Mu’adh ‫ ﷺ‬Threatens The 67

The Battle of Badr 71

The End of Umaiyya bin Khalaf- 74

The Jihad of Bilal Alongside The 79

Bilal Overslept And The Muslims 80

Bilal With The Messenger of Allah 81

Bilal During The Conquest of 82

Allah’s Messenger ‫ ﷺ‬Prays Inside 85

Bilal’s Hajj With The Messenger 87

Bilal Was Close To The Prophet 88

The Journey To Allah, Last Days 89

Umar ibn Al-Khattab Praising 92

Ahadith Narrated by Bilal 93

Bilal Leaves For Ash-Shaam After 94

Appendices To The Authentic 95

The False Story of Bilal Giving 96

Did Allah order the sun not to 102

‫يا أَيها ا َّلذين آم ُنوا ِإن جا َءكُم فاسق ِبنَ َبٍأ‬

1 Sahih Muslim 1, also in Sahih Al-Bukhari.

2 Part of a Hadith from At-Tirmidhi 1973, Sahih

8 Sahih Muslim 61.

9 People of the book: The Jews and the Christians

the popular but weak opinion {See Ma-Shaa Wa

The First Revelation Upon The

From The Seerah of The Prophet Muhammad’

[Mohammed Thajammul Hussain Manna:] It seems

Waraqa bin Noufal had converted

a true religion; he accepted that Prophet

Imam Ibn Katheer mentioned in As-Seerah

“Abu Hanifa responded by

19Summarized from Dr.Muhammad As-Suyani’s

20 As-Seerah An-Nabawiyyah, Vol.1, page 317,

Muslim historians. And Allah knows the best.

Allah revealed Surah Al-Masad26wherein

22 Three-four years. Da’wah here means calling

The Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬and lived and died as Muslims.

`Amr ibn `Abasah narrated:

28 Imam Ibn Katheer said: It is said that the

his Sahih (832-294) in the Chapter: The prayer of

Bilal was placed in the scorching hot desert