al-Tufayl ibn Amr al-Dawsi

الطفيل بن عمرو الدوسي

Yemen

A noble chief and renowned poet of the Daws tribe who arrived in Mecca around the eleventh year of prophethood; warned against listening to Muhammad, he stuffed his ears with cotton but upon hearing the recitation at the Kaaba embraced Islam, later calling his entire tribe to the faith.

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Companion · Poet · Notable
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Sunni
Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia
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Place in the story

  • Convert to IslamtowardMuhammad · c. 620 CETradition
  • Companion · c. 620 CETradition

Sunni (transmitted)

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Islam in Mecca (The Sealed Nectar pp.133-134)

He came to Mecca in the eleventh year of the mission. The people of Mecca warned him about the Prophet ﷺ and said that his speech was like magic. He stuffed his ears with cotton, but then he heard some of his words. The Prophet offered him Islam and recited the Qur'an to him, and he became Muslim. He asked that God give him a sign. His sign was a light on his face, which then moved to his whip. Later his father and his wife became Muslim. He emigrated after the Battle of the Trench with seventy or eighty households of his people, and he was martyred on the day of Yamama. 1 2.

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Born in
Yemen
Converted under
Muhammad

People and things also explored

Dhimad al-Azdi· Ali ibn Abi Talib's expeditions to Yemen (twice)· Ali's judgment on three men who lay with one woman in one purity· The sending of Mu'adh ibn Jabal to Yemen and the Prophet's charge to him· Muwatta 534· Muwatta 596· Muwatta 698· Muwatta 927

Sources

  1. al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p.133
  2. al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p.134
  • al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
  • Sahih al-Bukhari
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Dhimad al-Azdi

An Azdi physician and traditional healer from Azd Shanu'a who arrived in Mecca and offered to treat the Prophet Muhammad after hearing claims that he was mad; upon hearing the Prophet's Khutbat al-Hajah, he declared Islam immediately and pledged his tribe's allegiance.