al-Tufayl ibn Amr al-Dawsi
الطفيل بن عمرو الدوسي
A noble chief and renowned poet of the Daws tribe who arrived in Mecca around the eleventh year of prophethood; warned against listening to Muhammad, he stuffed his ears with cotton but upon hearing the recitation at the Kaaba embraced Islam, later calling his entire tribe to the faith.
At a glance
- Roles
- Companion · Poet · Notable
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Converts and those who leaveLiterature
Place in the story
- Convert to IslamtowardMuhammad · c. 620 CETradition
- Companion · c. 620 CETradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Connections
People and things also explored
Dhimad al-AzdiKa'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'adMalik ibn Awf's eulogy of the Prophet at al-Ji'ranaThe conversion of Abu QuhafaThe conversion of Abu Sufyan ibn HarbAli's expedition to destroy al-Fuls, the idol of Tayy'The Pledge of the Tree (Bay'at al-Ridwan)Conversion of Umayr ibn Wahb
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Tufayl ibn Amr al-Dawsi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/tufayl-ibn-amr-al-dawsi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.