# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bilal-ibn-rabah
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:35:22.169Z

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name: "Bilal ibn Rabah"
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description: "The first voice to call the faithful to prayer in Islam — a man who went from enslaved in Mecca to standing beside the Prophet Muhammad, chosen for a role that would echo through every mosque that followed."
tagline: "Companion of Muhammad and first Islamic mu'azzin (c.580–640)"
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birthDate: "581"
deathDate: "642"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Bilal ibn Rabah was born in Mecca on 5 March 580, into slavery. His life turned when he became a close companion of Muhammad, who saw past his bondage to something rare: a voice deep and clear enough to carry the new faith's summons. Muhammad personally chose him as Islam's first muʾazzin, the caller to prayer, a position that placed a formerly enslaved man at the ritual center of the community. He is often regarded as the first African or Black Muslim, a fact that carried its own weight in seventh-century Arabia. He died on 2 March 640, sixty years almost to the day from his birth, his voice the template for every call that would follow.