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Kingdom of Aksum

مملكة أكسوم

Trading nation in the area of Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia.

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Region
East Africa & Swahili coast
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Birthplace of
Bilal ibn Rabah· Umar ibn Abi Salama

People and things also explored

The three years of the secret call· The Battle of Badr· The shaytan lays Bilal down in the Mecca journey· The Conquest of Mecca (Fath Makka)· The delegation of Thaqif· The Farewell Sermon at Arafat· The cleansing of the Kaaba and destruction of idols· The Hijra

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islam.museum contributors. “Kingdom of Aksum”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/kingdom-of-aksum/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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The three years of the secret call

The first stage of the call to Islam — individual and secret for three years — in which the first band believed: Khadija, Ali, Zayd and Abu Bakr on the first day, then those whom Abu Bakr called, then a company Ibn Hisham numbers at over forty from every clan of Quraysh; during it prayer was first prescribed.