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The physical assaults started in {{BH|8|613|+}} <ref name=sunnipath2>[[The Sealed Nectar]] [http://www.sunnipath.com/Resources/PrintMedia/Books/B0033P0017.aspx The Second ‘Aqabah Pledge] on sunnipath.com</ref>. |
The physical assaults started in {{BH|8|613|+}} <ref name=sunnipath2>[[The Sealed Nectar]] [http://www.sunnipath.com/Resources/PrintMedia/Books/B0033P0017.aspx The Second ‘Aqabah Pledge] on sunnipath.com</ref>. |
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In {{BH|8|614}}, the fourth year of Prophethood, the Muslims were on their way to the hills of [[Mecca|Makkah]] to hold a clandestine meeting with [[Muhammad]], when a group of [[Polytheism|polytheists]] observed their suspicious movements and began to abuse and fight them. Sad'a beat a polytheist and shed his blood, reportedly the first instance of bloodshed in the history of Islam. |
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In {{AHM|7}} of {{BH|7|614|+}} <ref name=holly-p-7>http://www.anwary-islam.com/prophet-life/holly-p-7.htm</ref> twelve male and twelve female [[Sahaba]], the Muslims who originally converted in Mecca, migrated to [[Kingdom of Aksum|Aksumite]] [[Ethiopia]] (in Arabic, al-[[Habesha people|Habash]], or "Abyssinia"), seeking refuge from persecution <ref name=holly-p-7/>. |
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Following the return from the First migration to Abyssinia, the Muslims continued to suffer Persecution by the Meccans <ref name=sunnipath2>[[The Sealed Nectar]] [http://www.sunnipath.com/Resources/PrintMedia/Books/B0033P0017.aspx] on sunnipath.com</ref>. This time, in {{BH|6|616}} almost one hundred Muslims made a second migration back to Ethiopia were they stayed protected <ref name=christdot>http://christdot.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5095&hl</ref>. |
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After the Muslims in Arabia had migrated to Medina in {{AH|7|628}} <ref name=christdot/> and attained security, the Muslims in Ethiopia migrated back to Arabia and reunited with them in Medina <ref name=sunnipath2/> after six years absence <ref name=christdot/>. |
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Revision as of 01:31, 22 January 2007
- This is a sub-article to Muhammad before Medina and Persecution of Muslims
In the early days of Islam at Mecca, the new Muslims were often subjected to abuse and persecution.
History
Some were killed, such as Sumayyah bint Khabbab, the seventh convert to Islam, who was tortured first by Abu Jahl [1]. Muhammad was protected somewhat by the influence of his family, but even he was subjected to such abuse; while he was praying near the Kaaba, Abu Lahab threw the entrails of a sacrificed camel over him, and Abu Lahab's wife Umm Jamil would regularly dump filth outside his door [2]. And if free Muslims were attacked, slaves who converted were subject to far worse. The master of the Ethiopian Bilal ibn Rabah (who would become the first muezzin) would take him out into the desert in the boiling heat of midday and place a heavy rock on his chest, demanding that he forswear his religion and pray to the polytheists' gods and goddesses, until Abu Bakr bought him and freed him. [3]
It was due to this that Abu Bakr bought the freedom of the following persons:
8 BH (613 CE)
The physical assaults started in 8 BH (613 CE) [4].
In 8 BH (614 CE), the fourth year of Prophethood, the Muslims were on their way to the hills of Makkah to hold a clandestine meeting with Muhammad, when a group of polytheists observed their suspicious movements and began to abuse and fight them. Sad'a beat a polytheist and shed his blood, reportedly the first instance of bloodshed in the history of Islam.
7 BH (614 CE)
In Template:AHM of 7 BH (614 CE) [5] twelve male and twelve female Sahaba, the Muslims who originally converted in Mecca, migrated to Aksumite Ethiopia (in Arabic, al-Habash, or "Abyssinia"), seeking refuge from persecution [5].
6 BH (615 CE)
Following the return from the First migration to Abyssinia, the Muslims continued to suffer Persecution by the Meccans [4]. This time, in 6 BH (616 CE) almost one hundred Muslims made a second migration back to Ethiopia were they stayed protected [6].
After the Muslims in Arabia had migrated to Medina in AH 7 (628/629) [6] and attained security, the Muslims in Ethiopia migrated back to Arabia and reunited with them in Medina [4] after six years absence [6].
617
619
620
In 620, after the Year of Sorrow when his main source of support, Abu Talib had died did the persecution increased exponentially, so he tried to seek support from the neighboring city of Tai'f [7].
621
This persecution ultimately provoked the Migration to Medina.
List
Slaves who were Muslims
Male
- Yasir ibn Amir – tortured and killed [8].
- Bilal ibn Ribah – lied on burning sand, had a very heavy stone put on his chest with somebody jumping on it.
- Khabbab ibn al-Aratt – lied on burning sand, had hot metal put on his head,
- Abu Fakih – tied and draged on burning sand, had a very heavy stone put on his chest [9]
- Abu Fuhayra
- Ammar ibn Yasir – tortured [8].
Female
- Sumayyah bint Khabbab – killed by spear in privat parts [1].
- Al-Nahdiah – tortured [8]
- Umm Ubays – tortured [8]
- Lubaynah– extensively beaten [8]
- Zinnira – beaten until she lost her eye sight temporarily [9].
Free Muslims
- Muhammad – entrails of animals thrown at him while praying, people trying to strangle him, subjected to boycott, assassination attempt.
- Umm Kulthum binte Muhammad – was divorced on orders of Abu Lahab [4]
- Ruqayyah bint Muhammad – was divorced on orders of Abu Lahab [4]
- Sa'd ibn Ubadah – tortured [4]
References
- ^ a b themuslimweekly.com
- ^ witness-pioneer.org
- ^ islamonline.com
- ^ a b c d e f The Sealed Nectar The Second ‘Aqabah Pledge on sunnipath.com Cite error: The named reference "sunnipath2" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b http://www.anwary-islam.com/prophet-life/holly-p-7.htm
- ^ a b c http://christdot.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5095&hl
- ^ http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/does_islam_call_for_the_murder_of_infidels_part_i_ii/
- ^ a b c d e Millennium_Biography
- ^ a b witness-pioneer.org