بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Translation of Dr. Shams Jilani “Roshni Hira Say” (The light from Cave of Hira) by Dr. Rehan Asad
Chapter (55)
The people who accepted Islam after general invitation & acceptance of Islam by Hazrat Hamza (RA)
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Dear friends in last section we discussed about the chronology of the Prophet (PBUH) companions who first accepted Islam. The sequence as we read in the historical text is a complex issue. That’s why we gave you suggestion that please you also need to explore & review the research in this area. When you will try to explore this context then it will be easy to realize that clarification in this context is very difficult. But all the scholars unanimously agreed that reversion of Hazrat Abu Bakr (RA) gave life to the Islam & Hazrat Umar (RA) gave strength to the Islam. After this the mission of Islam got the strength & it continued to propagate at fast pace. Actually before this, the mission of Islam was kept secret as instructed by Allah. Some of them had instruction from the Prophet (PBUH) to keep the message as secret. As we had an example of Hazrat Ali. Actually, we didn’t know exactly who first reverted to Islam. And that’s the reason; the historians and scholars find difficulty in documenting it. And that’s why the confusion was created around this issue. If we go and revisit the pages of History, one can find the names of two other companions whose name were Hazrat Abuzar Ghaffari & Hazrat Amru bin Absah. There have been claims that both of these companions were fourth in entire Muslim community to accept Islam. Although both of them were among the list of companions of Prophet (PBUH) but those who reverted to Islam in early stage according to the majority of the historians are as follows:
Hazrat Abu Bakr, Hazrat Umar Bin Khattab, Hazrat Usman Bin Affan, Hazrat Ali Bin Abi Talib, Hazrat Saad bin Abi Waqqas, Hazrat Talha Bin Ubaidullah, Hazrat Abur Rehman Bin Auf, Hazrat Abu Ubaidah, Hazrat Abu Salmah, Hazrat Arqam Bin Arqam, Hazrat Uthman Bin Mazoon, Hazrat Ubaidah Bin Harith, Hazrat Saad bin Zaid, & his wife Hazrat Fatima bint Khattab. Some other names were also in the same list, they were as follows, Hazrat Asma bin Abu Bakr, Hazrat Ayesha bint Abu Bakr, Hazrat Faqdama Bin Mazoon, Hazrat Abdullah bin Mazoon, Hazrat Khabbab Bin Harith, Hazrat Umair Bin Abi Waqqas, Hazrat Abdullah bin Masood, Hazrat Masood Bin Qari, Hazrat Salit Bin Umar, Hazrat Ayyatan bin Abi Rabiyya, & her wife, Hazrat Asmah bint Salama, Hazrat Amir Bin Rabiyya, Hazrat Abdullah Bin Hajish, Hazrat Jafar Bin Abi Talib, his wife Hazrat Asma bint Amees, Hazrat Hatib Bin Harith, Hazrat Moammar Bin Harith, Hazrat Saib bin Uthman, Hazrat Muttalib Bin Azhar, Hazrat Ramla bint Abi Auf, Hazrat Naeem Bin Abdullah, Hazrat Aamir bin Faisarh, Hazrat Khalid Bin Saeed, Hazrat Ameena Bint Khalaf, Hazrat Waqid Bin Abdullah, Hazrat Khalid bin Bakira, Hazrat Aamir bin Bakira, Hazrat Aqil Bin Bakira, Hazrat Ayyas Bin Bakira, Hazrat Ammar Bin Yaser, Hazrat Soheb Bin Sannan (May Allah show mercy on all of them). Let’s drop this irrelevant issue here only & move to our account. From the family of Prophet (PBUH) after Hazrat Ali (RA), the next member who reverted to Islam was Hazrat Hamza Bin Abdul Muttalib (RA). In the next section, we will cover the details how Hazrat Hamza Bin Abdul Muttalib reverted to Islam.
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