Persecution of Muslims by the Meccans

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In the early days of Islam at Mecca, the new Muslims were often subjected to abuse and persecution.

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[edit] Overview

Some were killed, such as Sumayyah bint Khabbab, the seventh convert to Islam, who was tortured first by Abu Jahl [1]. Muhammad was protected somewhat by the influence of his family, but even he was subjected to such abuse; while he was praying near the Kaaba, Abu Lahab threw the entrails of a sacrificed camel over him, and Abu Lahab's wife Umm Jamil would regularly dump filth outside his door [2]. And if free Muslims were attacked, slaves who converted were subject to far worse. The master of the Ethiopian Bilal ibn Rabah (who would become the first muezzin) would take him out into the desert in the boiling heat of midday and place a heavy rock on his chest, demanding that he forswear his religion and pray to the polytheists' gods and goddesses, until Abu Bakr bought him and freed him. [3]


It was due to this that Abu Bakr bought the freedom of the following persons:

[edit] History

[edit] 8 BH (613–614 CE)

The physical assaults started in 8 BH (613–614 CE) [4].

Main article: Sahaba's first blood

In 8 BH (614 CE), the fourth year of Prophethood, the Muslims were on their way to the hills of Makkah to hold a clandestine meeting with Muhammad, when a group of polytheists observed their suspicious movements and began to abuse and fight them. Sad'a beat a polytheist and shed his blood, reportedly the first instance of bloodshed in the history of Islam.

[edit] 7 BH (614–615 CE)

Main article: First migration to Abyssinia

In seventh Islamic month (Rajab) of 7 BH (614–615 CE) [5] twelve male and twelve female Sahaba, the Muslims who originally converted in Mecca, migrated to Aksumite Ethiopia (in Arabic, al-Habash, or "Abyssinia"), seeking refuge from persecution [5].

[edit] 6 BH (615–616 CE)

Main article: Second migration to Abyssinia

Following the return from the First migration to Abyssinia, the Muslims continued to suffer Persecution by the Meccans [4]. This time, in 6 BH (616 CE) almost one hundred Muslims made a second migration back to Ethiopia were they stayed protected [6].

After the Muslims in Arabia had migrated to Medina in 7 AH (628) [6] and attained security, the Muslims in Ethiopia migrated back to Arabia and reunited with them in Medina [4] after six years absence [6].

[edit] 5 BH (616–617 CE)

Main article: Meccan boycott of the Hashemites

The Meccan boycott of the Hashemites by the Quraish was proclaimed in 617.

[edit] 3 BH (618–619 CE)

Main article: Year of Sorrow

[edit] 2 BH (619–620 CE)

Main article: Muhammad's visit to Ta'if

In 620, after the Year of Sorrow when his main source of support, Abu Talib had died did the persecution increased exponentially, so he tried to seek support from the neighboring city of Tai'f [7].

[edit] 1 BH (620–621 CE)

[edit] 1 AH (621–622)

Main article: Migration to Medina

This persecution ultimately provoked the Migration to Medina.

[edit] List

[edit] Slaves who were Muslims

[edit] Male


[edit] Female

[edit] Free Muslims

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b themuslimweekly.com
  2. ^ witness-pioneer.org
  3. ^ islamonline.com
  4. ^ a b c d e f The Sealed Nectar The Second ‘Aqabah Pledge on sunnipath.com
  5. ^ a b http://www.anwary-islam.com/prophet-life/holly-p-7.htm
  6. ^ a b c http://christdot.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5095&hl
  7. ^ http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/does_islam_call_for_the_murder_of_infidels_part_i_ii/
  8. ^ a b c d e Millennium_Biography
  9. ^ a b witness-pioneer.org
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