From all this, they thought that he had embraced Islam even, though the Messenger had not announced his embracing it. 4 These ahadith indicate that the Najashi had embraced Islam shortly, before his death, but they did not explain when he embraced Islam. The Negus ruled a unified Ethiopia (Aksum) from the 4th - Our Prophet 1, When Was The First Biography Of Holy Prophet Written? But when the tribe of Quraysh heard about the peace the Muslim migrants enjoyed under the protection of Al-Najashi, they made plans to try to extradite them back to Makkah. Jafar ibn Abi Taleb, the elder brother of Ali ibn Abi Taleb, who after embracing Islam escaped the prosecution of Makkans and led a delegation of over 80 emigrants to Habesha, was standing in the court of Christian King Najashi to defend Islam. He sends his own son. This was because the story, related to his embrace of Islam was not proved to him, while it is explicit, in his death. Or for him to resort, to something not amounting to be a shubhat ad-daleel (semblance of an, evidence), in order to justify participation in a kufr rule, which governs, by other than what Allah has revealed; even though participation in, kufr rule contradicts the evidences that are definite in meaning and, authenticity. the Kabah), for indeed, I have granted my protection to Muhammad.. Al-Najashi then said: The message of your Prophet and that of Prophet Moses come from the same lamp and source. He then turned to Abdullah Ibn Abi Rabia and Amr Ibn Al-Aas and said: Go, for by God, I will never turn them over to you and will never bring them any harm., But when the two men left the Kings court, Amr Ibn Al-Aas said to Abdullah Ibn Abi Rabia: By God, I shall return to the King tomorrow and bring up something of their belief that will destroy them completely. Abdullah Ibn Abi Rabia, who was the kinder of the two men, said: Do not do so, for they are our relatives even if they renounced our religion. Amr said: By Allah, I will tell the King that they claim Jesus, the son of Mary, is a servant of God. The next day, Amr Ibn Al-Aas said to Al-Najashi: O King, the group of the Muslims say a terrible thing about Jesus, the son of Marry. As, for the second letter, it was mentioned that the Najashi sent it with the. This means that the present time in Naruto is 12 years after the attack, i.e., Kakashi is 26-27 years old 12 years after Kurama's attack on Konoha. 5 These six ahadith contain nothing to indicate that the Najashi, whose death the Messenger informed the Sahabah of, was the same Najashi who was the ruler of Habasha (Ethiopia) when the Muslims, migrated to it. The books of history are, not authentic, because they are not concerned with the transmission of, the reports like the hadith books. The Jews of Madinah had a treaty with the Muslims to defend them if Madinah was attacked. I bought a slave and the people who sold him to me took the price, but then they seized the slave and took him away from me, and they wont give me my money back. So this was the first case that was seen from the firmness, wisdom, and justice of An-Najashi that he said:You must either give him his money back; or hand over his slave to him so that he may take him wherever he wants. So the people said: Rather we will give him his money. So they gave it to him. So they attacked (the king) and killed him, and they made his brother king. 7- Those who took the opinion that the Najashi for whom the, Messenger prayed the Janazah prayer is the same Najashi to whom, the Muslims migrated and entered into his protection, and the same, Najashi to whom the Messenger sent the letter inviting him to Islam. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. And Allah knows the best. - Our Prophet 3 - The Mission Begins, When Did Abu Bakr & His Family Become Muslims? - Our Prophet 4 - Struggles In Mecca, Why Was Medina More Open To Islam? And those early Muslims planted the roots of Islam in Africa. He then turned to Jafar and his group and said: Youre welcome; Your Prophet is welcome. When An-Najashi found out about the beauty of the Religion of Islam, and about the wonderful things it had to say about Jesus and Mary, he returned the gifts of the delegates and stated to them in no uncertain terms that he was not willing to expel his honored guests. (Al-Qahtani 140). [The Quraysh] sent two delegates, providing them with expensive gifts for the king, and instructing them to convince the king to expel the Muslims from his kingdom. Ethiopia. (Sayidin) Jabir (May Allah Most High be pleased with him) narrated, when the Najashi died, the Prophet said, 'A pious man has died today. Darussalam Publishers, eDarussalam.com. So the people quickly went to his children, but they found that they were stupid people. - Our Prophet 6 - Foundations Of Islamic State, Anecdotes from Prophet's stay at Abu Ayyub Al-Ansari's House - Our Prophet 6 - Foundations Of Islamic State, Eating Habits & Table Manners of the Prophet - Our Prophet 6 - Foundations Of Islamic State, Marriage of Lady Fatimah: Prophet Turns Down Abu Bakr & Umar - Our Prophet 6 - Foundations Of Islamic State, Marriage of Lady Fatimah: Prophet Accepts Imam Ali's Proposal - Our Prophet 6 - Foundations Of Islamic State. First a few of the Muslims, and later a bigger group (83 men and 19 women), migrated to Abyssinia, seeking asylum. A Mercy to the Universe. year, in which the Najashi who had embraced Islam assumed power, and he was the one for whom the Messenger prayed the Salatul Janazah, and whose death was before the conquest of Makkah in the eighth year. 632 AD Najashi/Date of death. Al-Mubarakpuri, Safiur-Rahman. that rules by other than what Allah has revealed. It all began in the 7th C. AD when the first followers of Prophet Mohammed . he used to call them to the funeral prayer when one of the Sahabah died. - Our Prophet 3 - The Mission Begins, Why Allah Stopped Sending Wahi After First Revelation? King tut ruled for only 9 years before he died unexpectedly. Umm Salama said: So Abdullah Ibn Abi Rabia and Amr Ibn Al-Aas left the court of the King, humiliated and rejected, while we lived with the King, in the best hospitality and protection. Related by Imam Ahmad with a good (hasan) narration. - Our Prophet 4 - Struggles In Mecca, First Pledge of Aqabah & Appointment of Musab ibn Umayr - Our Prophet 4 - Struggles In Mecca, The Second Pledge of Aqaba (Pledge of War) - Our Prophet 4 - Struggles In Mecca, Marriage with A'ishah: Hadiths That Praise Ayesha But Insult Prophet - Our Prophet 4 - Struggles In Mecca, Importance of Migration & Why The Prophet Chose Medina? He sends a letter back to the Prophet. Thus Najashi was the first king who accepted Islam in his court and died as a Muslim few years later. The Angel replied that when Allah decides a matter, He just has to command , Be and it happens (in this case, pregnancy without any intervention of a male). brought, to justify participation in a kufr rule, is nothing but selfdeception, before deception to Allah and the believers. Najashi was a follower of Christianity and the Makkan leaders found it appropriate to corner the Muslims with such allegations because of the sensitivity of Christian beliefs about the divinity of Jesus and his mother. What else do you want? Only one man answered his call Mutim ibn Adi, a Qurayshi disbeliever. A validation e-mail has been sent to your e-mail address. This is because he gave the best, protection for those who migrated to him from the Muslims, and gave. This is because the word Najashi is not a proper noun for a, specific person. The Sealed Nectar: Biography of the Noble Prophet (sa). The Muslims remained in Abyssinia as long as they wished, freely practicing Islam, and returned many years later to Madinah, where the Prophet (peace be upon him) had already built a successful state (in the year of the Khaybar conquest). This Najashi believing in this religion, he does not believe Jesus is the son of God! This was at the end of the sixth year of the Hijrah, in the, month of the Zhul Qadah. If you regularly visit this site and wish to show your appreciation, or if you wish to see further development of Al-Islam.org, please donate online. Nothing is more powerful than your leader in society marrying an African slave. He, the Prophet stood up to serve them with his own hands. He replied without any hesitation, O King! [5], Najashi was raised as a Christian. Their own people are more cognizant of them and better acquainted with their wrongdoing, so send them back with the two men who would return them to their country and people., Al-Najashi became quite angry at that and said: No, by God, I will not turn them over to these two men and will not dishonor a group of people who are my guests and who have chosen my protection over all others, until I call them and ask them about whatever these two men accuse them. African slaves! These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. - Our Prophet 1, When The Kaaba Faced An Army of Elephants - Our Prophet 1, Shi'a View on the Religion of Prophet's Ancestors - Our Prophet 1, Are The Prophet's Parents In Hell? He said four Takbirs (i.e. [1], Armah's silver coins have an unusual reverse, showing a structure with three crosses, the middle one gilded. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. [Mohammed Thajammul Husaain Manna:] This entire chapter and its footnotes have been taken from the referenced source with slight linguistic adaptation. We have believed in him, we have accepted his teachings and his injunctions to worship Allah, and not to associate anything with Him, and we have followed what He has allowed, and stayed away from what He has prohibited. Their argument is therefore invalidated. When Najashi died, Prophet Muhammad and the companions prayed funeral (in absentia) over him. - Our Prophet 5 - Road To Medina, 'Pact of Brotherhood' Between Meccan Muslims - Our Prophet 5 - Road To Medina, Beginning of Migration & Why Umm Salama Was Stopped - Our Prophet 5 - Road To Medina, Story of Hijrah (Migration): Prophet Escapes Assassination Attempt - Our Prophet 5 - Road To Medina, Story of Hijrah (Migration): Imam Ali Sleeps In Prophet's Bed - Our Prophet 5 - Road To Medina, Story of Hijrah (Migration): Examining The Verse In Honour of Imam Ali - Our Prophet 5 - Road To Medina, Story of Hijrah (Migration): Why Prophet Took Abu Bakr With Him? We even have historical accounts that later Najashi sent a group of 14 priests or bishop to visit the Prophet in Madinah. So he reported his death story to understand that he (an-, Najashi) embraced Islam from the prayer of janazah on him., 3 The wording of the ahadith reported by al-Bukhari indicates that the, Messenger knew of Najashis death and his embracing of Islam on the, day of his death via revelation. Jafar bin abi Talib (May Allah be pleased with him), one of the migrants, reassured them and took up the duty of presenting their case to the ruler. And even if hes not, he is still worthy of my respect. Sahabah returning from Habashah whilst he was in Madinah. So when the rest of the Abyssinians saw the status which he now had with his uncle they said: This boy has got the better of his uncle now, so we do not feel safe that he will not make him king over us (after himself), and he knows that we have killed his father. So the people quickly went to his children, but they found that they were stupid people. So some of them said to others: You know, by Allah, that the only one who is suitable to be king over you is the one who you sold this morning. But the father of An-Najashi had no child besides An-Najashi. We do have Hadiths that when he died, the Prophet actually prayed for him. But he was not the Najashi, for whom the Prophet made the (Janazah) prayer., As for the two letters mentioned by Muhammad Hamidullah in his book, Political documents of the Prophetic Era. They state that the, Najashi wrote a letter to the Messenger in which he states his, conversion to Islam and his readiness to come to the Messenger if he. Armah (Ge'ez: ) or Aamah (Arabic: ),[1] commonly known as Najashi (Arabic: , romanized:An-najsh), was the ruler of the Kingdom of Aksum who reigned from 614631 CE. Shaikh Al-Albani also weakened it in Sunan Abi Dawud, 2523. He forbade us to slander chaste women, or to expropriate the property of orphans. Now, Najashi dies when the Prophet, sallal Allahu 'alayhi wa alihi, was in Madinah. His actual name was Ashamah. - Our Prophet 6 - Foundations Of Islamic State, What Made The Charter of Medina Unique? Enter the OTP you received in your Email Inbox. [4] Scholar of ancient Ethiopia, Stuart Munro-Hay (19472004), stated that either Armah or Gersem was the last Axumite king to issue coins. According to Islamic sources, Jafar ibn Abi Talib told Najashi about the persecution they had faced at the hands of the Quraysh. Now, this disappointed the bishops who were around the Najashi, like, what is going on? I testify that Jesus is the word of God that He gave to Maryam, the pure. Jafar, began with Assalamualaikum' to Ruler and the two delegates of Makkah grabbed the opportunity to score first. He went towards the Musalla (praying place) and the people stood behind him in rows. The companions told him, Ya Rasul Allah, this is not appropriate, let us serve them. 'Salamun 'Alayk'. Rather I will send him away from your land.So they took him away, and put him in the market place; and they sold him as a slave to a trader from the traders who threw him into a ship, having bought him for 600 or 700 Dirhams. They have tortured and injured us, until finding no safety amongst them we have come to your country, and hope you will protect us from their oppression., The above courageous address proves that if the Muslims protect Islamic values, Allah will help them in any situation. When was Najashi died? Now it was the turn of the innocent Muslims in his court. Sir alam al-nabla. So if you have any concern for the affair of the Abyssinians, then go and get him before he leaves.. that the Najashi had embraced Islam in the time of the Messenger Najashi then affirmed that he would never give up the Muslims. Najashi is the Arabic term for the Negus, a title for kings of Ethiopia. Najashi asked Jafar (May Allah be pleased with him) why he did not bow to him. 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