Timing of Sahabah becoming Muslims
Introduction
Early companion converts heard rumours of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's open discussions with the tribal leaders, critiquing their society, requesting a collective reorientation of society based on a new tawheedi worldview. They would then question Muhammad and be told of his role and the revelation he had received.[1] Also, except for the Sahabah that merited extraordinary accomplishments, Sunni rank all Sahabah according to their time.
First
The first converts to Islam at the time of Muhammad were:[2]
- Khadija bint Khuwaylid - First person to convert and first female convert.[3]
- Zainab , Ruqayyah, Umm Kulthum , Fatimah -Among the early female converts, after their mother Khadija
- Ali ibn Abi Talib - First male in Muhammad's family to convert.[4]
- Zayd ibn Harithah - One of three males, besides Abu Bakr and Ali, to convert, as well as the first slave.
- Abu Bakr - First male to convert.[4]
- Uthman - Fourth male convert, after Ali, Abu Bakr, and Zayd.
Others
Some other early converts were:
- Yasir ibn Amir - One of the early converts, also the second martyr of Muhammad's Ummah[2]
- Ammar ibn Yasir - One of the early converts
- Abu Dhar al-Ghifari- One of the early converts
- Sumayyah bint Khabbab - Seventh person to convert[5] was the first martyr of Muhammad's Ummah[2]
- Sa'd ibn Abi-Waqqas - One of the first converts[6]
- Lubaba bint al-Harith - Second woman to convert[7]
- Bilal ibn Ribah - One of the early converts
- Abd-Allah ibn Mas'ud - One of the early converts
- Jafar ibn Abi Talib - One of the early convert
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf - Among the first converts
- Zubayr ibn al-Awwam - One of the early converts
- Talha ibn Ubayd-Allah - One of the early converts
- Khalid ibn Sa`id - One of the early converts
- Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah - One of the early converts
- Khabbab ibn al-Aratt - One of the early converts
- Said ibn Zayd - Converted before Umar
- Fatimah bint al-Khattab - Converted before Umar
- Abu-Hudhayfah ibn Utbah - One of the early converts
- Mus`ab ibn `Umair - One of the early converts
- Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib - Converted in 616 A.D.
- Asma bint Abu Bakr - About the eighteenth person to convert[8]
- Umar - around the fiftieth or sixtieth or so person to convert, and he did so during 4 BH (617–618 CE)[4][9]
- Umm Salama Hind bint Abi Umayya - Among the first people to convert
- Abd-Allah ibn Abd-al-Asad - Among the first people to convert
- Sawda bint Zama - One of the early converts
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References
- "How did the companions embrace Islam in Mecca?". Islamiqate.com.
- Razwy, Sayed A.A. (1997). "Abu Bakr the first Khalifa of the Muslims". A restatement of the history of Islam & Muslims : C.E. 570 to 661. Stanmore, Middlesex: World Federation of KSI Muslim Communities. ISBN 0950987913. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
Abu bakr was the son of abu qahafa, and made his living as a merchant in Makkah. He accepted Islam after Khadija, Ali ibn Abi Talib, and Zayd bin Haritha.
- "Khadijah, Daughter of Khuwaylid, Wife of Prophet Muhammad". Al-Islam.org.
- Tabari. Tarikh e Tabari.
I (Muhammad ibn Sa’ad ibn Abi Waqqas) asked my father whether Abu Bakr was the first of the Muslims. He said, 'No, more than fifty people embraced Islam before Abu Bakr; but he was superior to us as a Muslim. He also writes that Umar Bin Khattab embraced Islam after forty-five men and twenty-one women. As for the foremost one in the matter of Islam and faith, it was Ali Bin Abi Talib.'
- Al-Isabah [vol 8 ./189-190] with additional details taken from 'at-Tabaqat al-Kubra Volume 8 pg 193.
- Sa'ad Ibn Abi Waqqas (radhi allahu anhu) Archived 2005-09-10 at the Wayback Machine
- "Marriage to a 'past': Parents should not reject a proporal without a good reasons - and being a convert with a past is not an acceptable one". themodernreligion.com.
- Asma bint-Abu-Bakr Archived 2006-08-23 at the Wayback Machine
- Suyuti. "Umar". History of the Caliphs.
quoting al-Dhahabi: 'He (Umar) accepted Islam in the sixth year of prophecy when he was twenty-seven years old.'
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