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name of the Negus contemporary with Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu
’alaihi wasallam’ was As-hâma. He was a Christian and then
became a Muslim.] Also Abû Hind, Temîm, and Na’îm became
Muslims together with their relatives, and four other respectable
persons sent presents bearing the meaning that they believed
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ and then became
Muslims. Before the Holy War of Bedr, in Medina and in its
neighbourhood there were already several thousand people who
had become Muslims by listening to the merciful, compassionate
preaches of our master, Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’,
who is the most beloved one of Allâhu ta’âlâ, and hearing Qur’ân
al-kerîm, which has been admitted by all the Arabic rhetoricians
and which has always filled people with feelings of submission and
admiration. The number of people who believed Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’
during the period of his invitation was, according to Biblical
estimation, only one hundred and two. The number of people
having the honour of joining the religion of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’
upon seeing the extraordinary events that took place after the
execution of hadrat Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’, which is the belief held by
Christians, reached only five hundred. [The absolute truth is that
Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ was neither executed nor crucified. Allâhu ta’âlâ
elevated him alive to the heavens.]
It is written in Qisâs-i Enbiyâ [1]
that the number of Muslim
soldiers who conquered Mekka-i-mukarrama in the eighth year of
the Hijra was twelve thousand, that more than thirty thousand
Muslims from Medina joined the Holy War of Tabuk in the ninth
year of the Hijra, and that (the Prophet’s) farewell hajj was
performed with more than a hundred thousand Muslims in the
tenth year of the Hijra.
It is recorded in all books that the number of the As-hâb-ikirâm
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhum ajma’în’ who had had the honour of
believing Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ before his
honouring the hereafter with his blessed presence reached
hundred and twenty-four thousand (124,000). After Rasûlullah’s
‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ honouring the next world with his
blessed presence, the event of Museylemet-ul-kezzâb took place.
Abû Bakr as-Siddîq ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’, who was the first Khalîfa,
sent more than 12,000 Islamic soldiers against Museylemet-ulkezzâb.
In this Holy War more than nine hundred hâfidh al-
[1] Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, the editor of Qisâs-i Enbiyâ, passed away in
1312 [A.D. 1894].
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