Timing of Sahaba becoming Muslims

Among Muslim, the timing of Sahaba becoming Muslims is of importance. Because Muhammad was not a Sahaba, he is not included.

Introduction

After the Muslim conquests began, a Muslim's standing in the Islamic state depended on his services to the community, and especially on the length of time he had been a member of the community. Early converts (who had faced persecution with Muhammad) had a much higher status than later converts (who may have joined only after there were worldly reasons to do so). The first male convert may thus be presumed to have a special status.

To highlight the importance that was attached, one can see the controversies regarding the Identity of first male Muslim. Also, except for the Sahaba that merited extraordinary accomplishments, Sunni rank all Sahaba according to their time Timing becoming Muslims [http://www.swordofallah.com/html/companionshome.htm] .

List

Here is a list of the chronological order of them becoming Muslims. Sources are provided in the article of each Sahaba.

*Khadija - " First person Fact|date=February 2007
*Ali - "First male by most - Shi'a in particular, second by some See Identity of first male Muslim for references]
*Lubaba bint al-Harith - "Claimed to be second woman, the same day as her close friend Khadijah [ [http://www.themodernreligion.com/family/m-past.html Marriage to a 'past': Parents should not reject a proporal without a good reasons - and being a revert with a past is not an acceptable one ] ]
*Abu Bakr - "Second male, first male by some , third male by some http://www.islamvision.org/AcceptanceofIslam.asp]
*Zayd ibn Harithah - "First according to Watt , second male by some
*Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf - "among first eight persons to accept Islam, doing so two days after Abu BakrFact|date=February 2007
*Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah " one of the early convert to Islam.
*Abd-Allah ibn Mas'ud -"sixth?Fact|date=February 2007
*Ammar ibn Yasir - "sixth?Fact|date=February 2007
*Sumayyah bint Khabbab - "seventh [Al-Isabah [vol 8 ./189-190] with additional details taken from 'at-Tabaqat al-Kubra Volume 8 pg 193. [http://members.tripod.com/oum_abdulaziz/famous9.htm] ]
*Uthman ibn Affan - "One of the early convert to Islam".
*Abd-al-Rahman ibn Awf - eight [ [http://www.islamfortoday.com/companions.htm Biographies of the Companions of the Prophet ] ]
*Said ibn Zayd - "One of the early convert to Islam".
*Zubayr ibn al-Awwam - "One of the early convert to Islam".
*Talha ibn Ubayd-Allah - "One of the early convert to Islam".
*Sa'd ibn Abi-Waqqas - "one of the first persons to accept Islam" [ [http://www.ahya.org/amm/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=109 Sa'ad Ibn Abi Waqqas (radhi allahu anhu) ] ]
*Khabbab ibn al-Aratt - "among first tenFact|date=February 2007
*Bilal ibn Ribah - "One of the early convert to Islam".
*Asma bint Abu Bakr - "about the eighteenth person [ [http://anwary-islam.com/women/m-womens_asma.htm Asma bint-Abu-Bakr ] ]
*Aisha bint Abu Bakr - "the twentieth or the twenty-first person" [Al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah, Ibn Hisham, Vol 1, Pg 227 - 234, Maktabah al-Riyadh al-hadithah, Al-Riyadh.]
*Fatimah bint al-Khattab - "before Umar
*Said ibn Zayd - "before UmarFact|date=February 2007
*Umar - "around the fiftieths or sixtieth or so person to do so [History of the Caliphs by Suyuti, quoting An-Nawawi:He accepted Islam very early on, after forty other men and eleven women. Some say that it was after thirty-nine men and twenty-three women, and some say, after forty-five men and eleven women. [http://www.bogvaerker.dk/Bookwright/Umar.html] ] , in BH|4|617|+History of the Caliphs by Suyuti, quoting al-Dhahabi: He accepted Islam in the sixth year of prophecy when he was twenty-seven years old. [http://www.bogvaerker.dk/Bookwright/Umar.html] ]
*Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib - "Converted to Islam in 616 A.D".
*Umm Salama Hind bint Abi Umayya "were among the first who converted to Islam"Fact|date=February 2007
*Abd-Allah ibn Abd-al-Asad "were among the first who converted to Islam"Fact|date=February 2007
*Sawda bint Zama "one of the early converts"Fact|date=February 2007
*Abu Dharr al-Ghifari "one of the early converts"Fact|date=February 2007

ee also

*Religious conversion#Conversion to Islam

References