Da'wa and Christian mission
Family: Encounters with other traditions · 3 entries
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Mus'ab ibn Umayr
c. 585 CEA refined young Qurayshi of wealth who embraced Islam early and was sent to Medina before the Hijra as the community's first emissary and teacher; killed bearing the standard at Uhud.Mu'adh ibn Jabal
c. 603 CEA young Ansari convert of the pledges of Aqaba, remembered as the most learned of the community in what is lawful and forbidden; the Prophet sent him to Yemen as its teacher and judge.Bahira the monk
The Christian monk of Busra who, on Abu Talib's caravan stopping there, recognized the boy Muhammad by 'the seal of prophethood' between his shoulder blades, as recorded in his books, and advised returning him to Mecca.
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