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Barnabas appears mainly in Acts, a history of the early Christian church. He also appears in several of Paul's epistles. Barnabas, a native of Cyprus and a Levite, is first mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles as a member of the early Christian community in Jerusalem, who sold the land that he owned and gave the proceeds to the community. [1]
When ahl (أهل) appears in construction with a person, it refers to his blood relatives.However, the word also acquires wider meanings with other nouns. [6] In particular, bayt (بَيْت) is translated as 'habitation' and 'dwelling', [7] and thus the basic translation of ahl al-bayt is '(the) inhabitants of the house'. [6]
Prior to the origins of Islam, cousin marriage was an acceptable practice in the Middle East according to writings in the Bible. Abraham sent his servant back to his brother to get a wife for his son Isaac. Isaac eventually married his first cousin once removed Rebekah (daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother.)
An ongoing dispute concerns the identity of the second male Muslim, that is, the first male who accepted the teachings of Muhammad. [3] [2] Shia and some Sunni sources identify him as Muhammad's cousin, Ali ibn Abi Talib, aged between nine and eleven at the time. [4]
He was a first cousin of the founder of Islam, Muhammad, and later became one of his companions. During the rule of the righteous caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib , he held the position of ruler of Mecca . During the reign of Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan , he participated in the conquest of Central Asia under the leadership of the governor of Khorasan , Said ...
Umāma bint Abī al-ʿĀṣ ibn al-Rabīʿ (Arabic: أُمَامَة بِنْت أَبِي ٱلْعَاص ابْن ٱلرَّبِيْع), was a granddaughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and Khadija, via their daughter Zaynab, and is thus also known as Umāma bint Zaynab (أُمَامَة بِنْت زَیْنَب).
Most Islamic sources place the event around the year that Muhammad was born, 570 CE, [5] though other scholars place it one or two decades earlier. [6] A tradition attributed to Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri in the musannaf of ʽAbd al-Razzaq al-Sanʽani places it before the birth of Muhammad's father.
Amongst pre-Islamic Arabs, people classified themselves according to their tribe, their clan, and then their house/family. There were two major tribal kinds: the Adnanites (descended from Adnan , traditional ancestor of the Arabs of northern, central and western Arabia) and the Qahtanites (originating from Qahtan , the traditional ancestor of ...