Race, colour and ethnicity

Family: Peoples, minorities and protected groups · 4 entries

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Person

• Umm Ayman (Baraka bint Tha'laba)

  c. 560 (approx.) CEAn Abyssinian freedwoman of the Prophet's family who cared for him as a child and again after his mother's death, and is counted among the Companions.

• Bilal ibn Rabah

  c. 580 CEAn Abyssinian-born slave in Mecca, among the earliest converts; freed by Abu Bakr and remembered as the first muezzin of Islam — the voice that called the community to prayer.

• Ayman ibn Ubayd

  The son of Barakah (Umm Ayman, the Prophet's nursemaid) and half-brother of Usama ibn Zayd; an Ethiopian-Arab Muslim who remained steadfast around the Prophet when the lines broke at Hunayn and fell fighting as a martyr.

Event

• The Farewell Pilgrimage

  March 632 CE · Dhu al-Hijja 10 AHThe only pilgrimage the Prophet led, during which he gave the sermon known as the Farewell Sermon.

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