محمد بن نافع الخزاعي
محمد بن نافع الخزاعي
He examined the Black Stone while it lay uprooted: the blackness only at its head, the rest white, its length a forearm's bone 1.
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- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Muhammad ibn Nafi' al-Khuza'i, a transmitter mentioned in the report of the uprooting of the Black Stone. Al-Suyuti, in the History of the Caliphs, relates that he said: "I looked at the Black Stone while it was uprooted, and the blackness was only on its head, and the rest was white, and its length was the size of a forearm bone." 2
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- Participated in
- إعادة الحجر الأسود إلى موضعه
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Sources
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 616
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p.616
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islam.museum contributors. “محمد بن نافع الخزاعي”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muhammad-ibn-nafi-al-khuzai/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.