List of non-Arab Sahabah

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• Bilal ibn Rabah, First Muezzin (Reciter of the Adhan) in history. He was born into slavery but was emancipated by the Muslims.
• Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib in the Battle of Uhud before accepting Islam and then later reportedly killed Musaylima in the Ridda Wars
  .
• Umm Ayman (Barakah), was around Muhammad from his birth until his death and was the closest example of a mother to him (after his own mother’s death when he was a child). She was the mother of Usama ibn Zayd and Ayman ibn Ubayd.
• Ayman ibn Ubayd, son of Umm Ayman and half-brother of Usama ibn Zayd. Ayman was killed fighting in the Battle of Hunayn.
• Sumayyah bint Khabbat, one of the first to embrace Islam and later on get killed by the polytheistic Banu Makhzum because of her faith. She is described in the sources as being black-skinned. The sources assume she was of Ethiopian origin.^[1][2]

• Salman al-Farsi – He was born as a Zoroastrian 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.
• 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.
• Badhan (Persian governor), a member of the Al-Abna community who converted to Islam after interacting with Muhammad on behalf of the Sasanian government

Roman

• Al-Nahdiah, converted to Islam while she was a slave, but refused to abandon her new faith even after being tortured and persecuted by her slave-master. She was later freed from slavery.
• Lubaynah, converted to Islam while she was a slave, but refused to abandon her new faith even after being persecuted by her then pagan slave-master. She was later freed from slavery.
• Umm Ubays, converted to Islam while she was a slave, but refused to abandon her new faith even after being tortured and persecuted by her pagan slave-master. She was later freed from slavery. She was the daughter of Al-Nahdiah.
• Harithah bint al-Muammil
  (Zunayra) – Converted to Islam while she was a slave, but refused to abandon her new faith even after being persecuted to such a severe extent that she lost her eyesight. She was later freed from slavery. Umm Ubays was her sister.
• Uthman ibn Affan
  . Although his name had the title, "the Roman," he was only culturally Roman due to growing up there, but ethnically he was born Arab.

Copt (Egyptian)

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

Kurdish

• Jaban al-Kurdi – He was known to have narrated 10 prophetic ahadith
• Meymun bin Jaban al-Kurdi^[3]
• Zozan^[4]

Jewish

• Abdullah ibn Salam – Was a rabbi before his conversion to Islam. He 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 in most battles during the Prophet's time. He was an expert in reading Hebrew bible, his mother tongue, and he was assigned by the Prophet to document Quran.
• Muhammad in the Battle of Uhud
• Safiyya bint Huyayy – She was one of Muhammad's wives.
• Rayhana
  – Also one of Muhammad's wives.

Assyrian

• Khabbab ibn al-Aratt – One of the first converts to Islam, he was a Assyrian from the Yamama region.
• Addas – He was a young Christian slave boy (originally from Nineveh) who was the first person from Taif to convert to Islam.

See also

• Najashi, a Christian king of Aksum who granted asylum to Muslim emigrants from Mecca

References