Companion of Muhammad and first Islamic mu'azzin (c.580–640)
This article is about the companion of Muhammad. For the Mosque named in his honour, see Rachel's tomb.
Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ بِلَال بِن رَبَاح
Born
March 5, 580
Birthplace
Mecca, Hejaz
Known for
being the first mu'azzin in Islam history [1][2]
Occupation
Mu'azzin and Secretary of Treasure of The Islamic State of Medina
Title
Sayyid al-Muʾaḏḏin
Died
March 2, 640(640-03-02) (aged 59)
Father
Rabah
Mother
Hamamah
Wife
Hind
Hala bint Awf[3]
Religion
Islam
Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ (Arabic: بِلَال بِن رَبَاح) (5 March 580 – 2 March 640), was one of the Sahabah (companions) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was born in Mecca and is considered to have been the first mu'azzin in history, chosen by Muhammad himself.[1][4][5][6] He was a former Abyssinian slave and was known for his voice with which he called people to their prayers. He died in 640, around the age of 60.
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^Levtzion, Nehemia, and Randall Lee Pouwels. The History of Islam in Africa. South Africa: Ohio UP, 2000. Print.
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slanderer and backbiter". He subjected his slave BilalibnRabah to torture for having adopted Islam. He forced Bilal to lie on hot desert sand and pinned him...
Sahabis became Muslim. He was known to have freed slaves, including BilalibnRabah. He suffered persecution by the Mushrikites and later accompanied Muhammad...
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after 11 February 1835. He was also known as "Bilal", a connection to the Islamic figure BilalibnRabah and a regional word for prayer caller, following...
existed since the time of Muhammad. The first muezzin was a former slave BilalibnRabah, one of the most trusted and loyal sahabah (companions) of the Islamic...
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began tourturing and harassing him as it also happened with BilalibnRabah and Khabbab ibn al-Aratt. When Muhammad gave permission for his followers to...
Muhammad: The Last Prophet, the 2012 TV series Omar and the 2015 animated movie Bilal: A New Breed of Hero. Islamic military jurisprudence Muslim–Quraysh War...
Waqqas, Abdullah ibn Masud, Arqam, Abu Dharr al-Ghifari, Ammar ibn Yasir and BilalibnRabah. In the fourth year of his prophethood, according to Islamic...
converts to Islam were the poor and former slaves. One notable example is BilalibnRabah al-Habashi. Slavery was widely practiced in pre-Islamic Arabia, as...
were women, the poor, foreigners, and slaves like the first muezzin BilalibnRabah al-Habashi. The Meccan elite felt Muhammad was destabilizing their...
of the Apostle of God as Ali ibn Abi Talib, Salman el-Farsi, Abu Dharr el-Ghiffari, Ammar ibn Yasir, Owais Qarni and Bilal. The orientalists will change...
suhur and dawn prayer during Ramadan. According to the history books, BilalibnRabah was the first musaharati in Islamic history, as he used to roam the...
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