Bilal ibn Rabah
Companion of Muhammad and first Islamic mu'azzin (c.580-640) · Religious Figures · Lived 581 to 642 · aged 61
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Something wrong?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.
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About this person
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.
Religious Figures born in the 580s 3
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