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Amir ibn Fuhayra

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When Abu Bakr and Muhammad escaped from Mecca in 622, Amir grazed Abu Bakr's flocks by day, then brought them at evening to the cave where Abu Bakr and Muhammad were hiding, presumably so that the sheep would cover their tracks. When they left the cave to
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reported that his body was never found, for "the angels had buried him" and he was raised directly to Heaven. Later Jabbar asked what Amir had meant by saying, "I have won." When he was told that Amir had gained Paradise, Jabbar also became a Muslim.
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At first Amir stayed with Saad ibn Khaythama in Medina; but he later returned to Abu Bakr's house. Muhammad made a pact of brotherhood between Amir and Al-Harith ibn Aws ibn Muadh. Soon after their arrival, Amir, Abu Bakr and
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in Mecca before 614. From 614 he was tortured in Mecca in an attempt to force him to recant his faith. His persecutor is not directly named; but the persecution stopped when Abu Bakr bought him from Al-Tufayl and
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in July or August 625. When he was stabbed by Jabbar ibn Sulma from the Kalb tribe, he exclaimed, "I have been successful, by Allah!" He was among the first to die in the battle.
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him. As was usual for freed slaves, Amir remained in Abu Bakr's service and had the special care of grazing his milking ewe.
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came to inquire after their health, Amir replied, apparently rambling:
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Of African ancestry, he was born a slave in the possession of the
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I have experienced death before actually tasting it:
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Index

Abu Fukayha
Arabic
companion
Muhammad
Azd
Al-Tufayl ibn Al-Harith
Abu Bakr
Muslim
manumitted
travel
Medina
Bilal
Aisha
Badr
Uhud
Battle of Bir Ma'una
Urwa












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