The persecution of the vulnerable Muslims
اضطهاد المستضعفين
c. 613 CE – c. 622 CE · c. 1 BH† †
† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.
After mockery and bargaining failed, a twenty-five-man committee of Quraysh's chiefs headed by Abu Lahab resolved to fight Islam and torture its adherents; the clanless and enslaved Muslims bore the worst — Bilal under the midday rocks, the family of Yasir, Sumayya the first martyr speared by Abu Jahl, Abu Fakiha, Khabbab, and slave women whom Abu Bakr bought and freed.
At a glance
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Connections
- Had participant
- Ammar ibn YasirYasir ibn AmirAbu LahabUmm JamilUmayya ibn KhalafAbu Jahl (Amr ibn Hisham)Bilal ibn RabahSumayya bint KhayyatKhabbab ibn al-ArattAbu FakihaAbu Bakr al-SiddiqMus'ab ibn Umayr
- Led to
- Abu Talib gathers Banu Hashim and Banu al-MuttalibThe first migration to Abyssinia
- Occurred at
- Mecca
- Part of
- The Prophetic Era
- Revealed in
- Qur'an 109:1
People and things also explored
MeccaThe Battle of BadrThe early Muslim communityThe three years of the secret callQurayshSumayya bint KhayyatThe boycott of the Banu HashimThe Hijra
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
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islam.museum contributors. “The persecution of the vulnerable Muslims”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/persecution-of-mustadafin/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.