Ayyub (Job)

أيوب

The prophet of patience: bathing unclothed when golden locusts rained on him, he answered his Lord 'yes, by Your might, but I cannot do without Your blessing' 1.

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Pre-Islamic Arabia
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موجز

نبي عُرف بالصبر. يروي البخاري أنه اغتسل عرياناً، فسقط عليه جراد من ذهب، فجعل يجمعه في ثوبه. فناداه ربه: ألم أكن أغنيتك عما ترى؟ قال: بلى وعزتك، ولكن لا غنى بي عن بركتك. 2

ما لم يُذكر هنا: سائر أخباره، وهي تحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي.

People and things also explored

al-Amin, the Trustworthy (the Prophet's title before his mission)· The periods and stages of the Prophet's call· The modes (ranks) of revelation· The substance of the call in the opening of al-Muddaththir· The three years of the secret call· The Raising of the Kaaba’s Foundations· The death of the Prophet· The delegation of Banu Hanifa

Sources

  1. Sahih al-Bukhari, 279
  2. Sahih al-Bukhari, p.279
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islam.museum contributors. “Ayyub (Job)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ayyub/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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al-Amin, the Trustworthy (the Prophet's title before his mission)

The title by which Quraysh called Muhammad before prophethood for the trustworthiness and good qualities they saw in him; they cried it out when he entered as arbiter over the Black Stone during the rebuilding of the Kaaba.