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List of non Arab Sahabah

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The list of non-Arab Sahaba includes non-Arabs among the original Sahaba of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Muhammad had many followers from amongst the Arabs, from many different tribes. However, he also had many non-Arab Sahaba, from many different ethnicities. Some of these non-Arabs were among the most beloved and loyal individuals to Muhammad. The inclusion of these non-Arabs among the original followers of Muhammad and Islam represents the universality of the message of Islam.

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Afro-Arabs

  • Bilal ibn Ribah

    • Comorian

  • Fey Bedja Mwamba – According to Comorian legend, he was a Comorian noble who brought Islam to the Comoros Islands visiting Mecca during Muhammad’s lifetime and there converted to Islam.
  • Mtswa Mwandze – According to Comorian legend, he was a Comorian noble who brought Islam to the Comoros Islands visiting Mecca during Muhammad’s lifetime and there converted to Islam.

    • Copt (Egyptian)

  • Maria al-Qibtiyya – She was a slave and she was one of Muhammad's wives and was the mother of Muhammad's third son Ibrahim.
  • Sirin – She was the wife of Hassan ibn Thabit, who was one of the best Arab poets of the time. Maria al-Qibtiyya was her sister.

    • Jewish

  • Abdullah ibn Salam – He was a rabbi before his conversion to Islam and was the first Muslim that was explicitly promised Jannah (paradise) by Muhammad while he was still alive. He is credited as the man who participated most in all the battles during the Prophet's time and after that. He was an expert in reading the Hebrew bible as a mother tongue and was assigned by the Prophet to write down the Quran.
  • Safiyya bint Huyayy – She was one of Muhammad's wives.
  • Rayhana – Also one of Muhammad's wives.
  • Banu Najjar "The Carpenter family" a Jewish family who converted to Islam under the Tree "Ansar allegiance under the tree" and shook hands with the Prophet, and were the first Ansar Muslims of Medina.
  • Abu Ayyub al-Ansari was the host of the Prophet when he immigrated to Medina. He participated in the First Siege of Constantinople at age over 80.
  • "Jasser and Wife", Sumayyah bint Khayyat and Yasir ibn Amir, early believers of Muhammad.

    • Kurdish

  • Jaban al-Kurdi – He was better known as Jaban Al-Kurdi. In the year 18 after Hijra, he went back to Kurdistan to preach Islam in his homeland. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani mentions in his book Finding the Truth in Judging the Companions, 10 hadiths which are quoted by Jaban. His son Abu Basir was a Tabi'i.
  • Maymun al-Kurdi (Abu Basir Maymun al-Kurdi ibn Jaban)
  • Zozan Sahabi or Zozana Kurdi

    • Sindhi Jat

  • Muhammad Ali Jat – He is claimed to be a legendary ancestor of some Sindhi tribes, who traveled from Makran, present-day central Pakistan to Arabia to meet Muhammad and embraced Islam there, before returning to his people and introducing them to the faith.

    • Persian

  • Salman al-Farsi – He was born in Persia but embarked on a long and continuous journey (away from his homeland) in search of the truth. He ultimately reached his destination in Arabia, when he met Muhammad and converted to Islam. It was his suggestion to build a trench in the Battle of the Trench that ultimately resulted in a defeat for the forces of the enemies of the Muslims.
  • Fayruz al-Daylami – He was sent out by Muhammad to defeat in battle Aswad Ansi, who claimed prophethood in Yemen.
  • Munabbih ibn Kamil – He was a Persian knight. He had two sons, who were both Islamic scholars.
  • Salim Mawla Abu-Hudhayfah – He was a highly respected and valued Muslim (among his fellow Muslims), who died while fighting against the forces of Musaylimah during the Wars of Apostasy. Umar ibn al-Khattāb suggested he would have designated Salim as his successor to the Caliphate had he still been alive.

    • Tamil Chera (Indian)

  • Cheraman Perumal – He was a Chera king of South India (present-day Kerala) who traveled to Arabia and converted to Islam.

    • Assyrian

  • Addas – He was a young Christian slave boy (originally from Nineveh) who was the first person from Taif to convert to Islam.

    • References

    List of non-Arab Sahabah Wikipedia
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