Abdullah Vs. Khusraw the King of Persia and Heraclius, the Byzantine emperor.

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Abdullah ibn Hudhafah as-Sahmi[/SIZE]

History would have by-passed this man as it had bypassed thousands of Arabs before him. He, like them, would have had no claim to attention or fame.

The greatness of Islam, however, gave to Abdullah ibn Hudhafah the opportunity to meet two world potentates of his time--Khusraw Parvez the King of Persia and Heraclius, the Byzantine emperor.​

 

[JoeB131]

Will it be a Texas Cage Match?

 

[emptystep]

To translate the Persian:
"beginning with the name of the God who is kind and given everything"

 

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The story of his encounter with Khusraw Parvez began in the sixth year of the hijrah when the Prophet decided to send some of his Companions with letters to rulers outside the Arabian peninsula inviting them to Islam.

The Prophet attached great importance to this initiative. These messengers were going to distant lands with whom there was no agreement or treaty. They did not know the languages of these lands nor anything about the ways and disposition of their rulers.

They were to invite these rulers to give up their religion and forsake their power and glory and enter the religion of a people who shortly before were almost their subjects. The mission was undoubtedly hazardous.

To make known his plan, the Prophet called his companions together and addressed them. He started by praising God and thanking Him. He then recited the Shahadah and went on:
"I want to send some of you to the rulers of foreign lands but don't dispute with me as the Israelites disputed with Jesus, the son of Mary.

"O Prophet of God, we shall carry out whatever you wish," they responded. "Send us wherever you desire."

The Prophet commissioned six of his Sahabah to carry his letters to Arab and foreign rulers.

One of these was Abdullah ibn Hudhafah. He was chosen to take the Prophet's letter to Khusraw Parvez, the Persian king.
Abdullah got his camel ready and bade farewell to his wife and son. He set out, alone, and traversed mountains and valleys until he reached the land of the Persian.

He sought permission to enter into the king's presence informing the guards of the letter he was carrying. Khusraw Parvez thereupon ordered his audience chamber to be made ready and summoned his prominent aides. When they had assembled he gave permission for Abdullah to enter.
Abdullah entered and saw the Persian potentate dressed in delicate, flowing robes and wearing a great, neatly arranged turban. On Abdullah was the plain, coarse clothes of the bedouin. His head though was held high and his feet were firm. The honor of Islam burned fiercely in his chest and the power of faith pulsated in his heart.

As soon as Khusraw Parvez saw him approaching he signal led to one of his men to take the letter from his hand.

"No," said Abdullah. 'The Prophet commanded me to hand over this letter to you directly and I shall not go against a command of the Messenger of God."
"Let him come near to me," Khusraw said to his guards and Abdullah went forward and handed over the letter. Khusraw then called an Arab clerk who originally came from Hira and ordered him to open the letter in his presence and read its contents. He began reading:

"In the name of Allah, the Beneficent the Merciful. From Muhammad, the Messenger of God, to Khusraw the ruler of Persia. Peace on whoever follows the guidance . . ."

Khusraw only heard this much of the letter when the fire of anger burst within him. His face became red and he began to perspire around the neck. He snatched the letter from the clerk's hand and began tearing it to pieces without knowing what else it contained and shouted,

"Does he dare to write to me like this, he who is my slave".

He was angry that the Prophet had not given him precedence in his letter. He then commanded Abdullah to be expelled from his assembly.
Abdullah was taken away, not knowing what would happen to him. Would he be killed or would he be set free? But he did not want to wait to find out. He said, "By God, I don't care what happens to me after the letter of the Prophet has been so badly treated." He managed to get to his camel and rode off.
When Khusraw's anger had subsided he commanded that Abdullah be brought before him. But Abdullah was nowhere to be found. They searched for him all the way to the Arabian peninsula but found that he had gone ahead.
Back in Madinah, Abdullah told the Prophet how Khusraw had torn his letter to pieces and the Prophet's only reply was,
"May God tear up his kingdom".

Meanwhile, Khusraw wrote to Badhan, his deputy in the Yemen, to send two strong men to "that man who has appeared in the Hijaz" with orders to bring him to Persia.

Badhan dispatched two of his strongest men to the Prophet and gave them a letter to him in which he was ordered to go with the two men to meet Khusraw without delay. Badhan also asked the two men to get whatever information they could on the Prophet and to study his message closely.
The men set out, moving very quickly. At Taif they met some Quraysh traders and asked them about Muhammad. "He is in Yathrib," they said and they went on to Makkah feeling extremely happy. This was good news for them and they went around telling other Quraysh, "You will be pleased. Khusraw is out to get Muhammad and you will be rid of his evil."

The two men meanwhile made straight for Madinah where they met the Prophet, handed him the letter of Badhan and said to him,

"The king of kings, Khusraw, has written to our ruler Badhan to send his men to get you. We have come to take you with us. If you come willingly, Khusraw has said that it will be good for you and he will spare you any punishment. If you refuse, you will know the power of his punishment. He has power to destroy you and your people."

The Prophet smiled and said to them,

"Go back to your mounts today and return tomorrow."

On the following day, they came to the Prophet and said to him, "Are you prepared to go with us to meet Khusraw?"
"You shall not meet Khusraw after today," replied the Prophet.

"God has killed him and his son Shirwaih has taken his place on such a night and on such a month."
The two men stared in the face of the Prophet. They were completely dumbfounded.
"Do you know what you are saying?" they asked. "Shall we write about this to Badhan?"
"Yes," replied the Prophet,

"and say to him that my religion has informed me about what has happened to the Kingdom of Khusraw and that if he should become Muslim, I would appoint him ruler over what he now controls".
The two men returned to the Yemen and told Badhan what had happened. Badhan said,

"If what Muhammad has said is true, then he is a Prophet. If not then we shall see what happens to him."

Not long afterwards a letter from Shirwaih came to Badhan in which he said, "I killed Khusraw because of his tyranny against our people. He regarded as lawful the killing of leaders, the capturing of their women and the expropriating of their wealth. When this my letter reaches you, take the allegiance of whoever is with you on my behalf."

As soon as Badhan had read Shirwaih's letter, he threw it aside and announced his entry into Islam.

The Persians with him in the Yemen also became Muslim.

 

[Meathead]

Could you tell us about the 9 year-old girl he raped?

 

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His meeting with the Byzantine emperor took place during the caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khattab. It too is an astonishing story.

In the nineteenth year after the Hijrah, Umar dispatched an army to fight against the Byzantine. In it was Abdullah ibn Hudhafah.


News of the Muslim force reached the Byzantine emperor.


He had heard of their sincerity of faith, and their willingness to sacrifice their lives in the way of God and His Prophet. He gave orders to his men to bring to him any Muslim captive they might take alive.


God willed that Abdullah ibn Hudhafah should fall captive to the Byzantines and he was brought before the Emperor.


The Emperor looked at Abdullah for a long time. Suddenly he said, "I shall make a proposal to you."
"What is it?" asked Abdullah. "I suggest that you become a Christian. If you do this, you will be set free and I shall grant you a safe refuge."


The prisoner's reaction was furious: "Death is preferable to me a thousand times to what you ask me to do."

"I see that you are a bold man. However, if you respond positively to what I propose to you, I will give you a share in my authority and swear you in as my aide."

The prisoner, shackled in his chains, smiled and said, "By God, if you give me all that you possess and all that the Arabs have in exchange for giving up the religion of Muhammad, I shall not do so."

"Then I shall kill you."

"Do what you want," answered Abdullah.

The emperor then had him put on a cross and ordered his soldiers to throw spears at him, first near his hands and then near his feet, all the while telling him to accept Christianity or at least give up his religion. This he refused over and over again to do.
The emperor then had him taken down from the wooden cross.

He called for a great pot to be brought. This was filled with oil which was then heated under a fierce fire. He then had two other Muslim prisoners brought and had one of them thrown into the boiling oil. The prisoner's flesh sizzled and soon his bones could be seen.



The emperor turned to Abdullah and invited him to Christianity.

This was the most terrible test that Abdullah had to face up till now. But he remained firm and the emperor gave up trying.


He then ordered that Abdullah too be thrown into the pot.



As he was being taken away he began to shed tears.

The emperor thought that he had at last been broken and had him brought back to him.


He once more suggested that Abdullah become a Christian but to his astonishment, Abdullah refused.
" !@#$%^&* you! Why did you weep then?" shouted the emperor.

"I cried," said Abdullah, "because I said to myself 'You will now be thrown into this pot and your soul will depart'.

What I really desired then was to have as many souls as the number of hairs on my body and to have all of them thrown into this pot for the sake of God !!."

The tyrant then said, "Will you kiss my head? I will then set you free?"

"And all the Muslim prisoners also?" asked Abdullah.

This the emperor agreed to do and Abdullah said to himself, "One of the enemies of God! I shall kiss his head and he shall set me and all other Muslim prisoners free. There can be no blame on me for doing this."

He then went up to the emperor and kissed his forehead. All the Muslim prisoners were released and handed over to Abdullah.

Abdullah ibn Hudhafah eventually came to Umar ibn al-Khattab and told him what had happened. Umar was greatly pleased and when he looked at the prisoners he said,


"Every Muslim has a duty to kiss the head of Abdullah ibn Khudhafah and I shall start."

Umar then got up and kissed the head of Abdullah ibn Hudhafah .

 

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Recommended sources:
http://islamicvoice.com/August2006/ProphetsCompanions/
Sahaba.net :: Stories of the Companions - Anything for Islam
http://sahaba-stories.blogspot.com/2009/09/abdullah-ibn-hudhafah-al-sahmi-and.html

 

[Meathead]

Come on, please tell us about the little girl he raped. What was her name, Aisha or something like that?

 

[JoeB131]

Does your doctor know youare off your meds?

 

[Meathead]

Does your doctor know youare off your meds?

If you're addressing the prophet, he was certainly delusional and psychotic and sorely needed "meds" as he was talking to Allah, but there none for that condition at the time. However, they are available today, so if you're having a dialog with a dead prophet you might talk to your own doctor.

 

[JoeB131]

Does your doctor know youare off your meds?

If you're addressing the prophet, he was certainly delusional and psychotic and sorely needed "meds" as he was talking to Allah, but there none for that condition at the time. However, they are available today, so if you're having a dialog with a dead prophet you might talk to your own doctor.

I think I was talking to the OP starter, who must be very much alive.

I think the same question could be posed to you though, with your anti-Islamic hate...

 

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Come on, please tell us about the little girl he raped. What was her name, Aisha or something like that?

Did Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, rape a nine-year old girl called Aisha?
The allegation that the Prophet Muhammad married Aisha in the year 624AD when she was only a nine-year old girl, is not new.

However, the fact this controversy has surfaced on rightwing blogs, is something that has caught a lot of Muslims by surprise. It was sparked by a lecture in Toronto where the former Muslim, Syrian-American Wafa Sultan claimed, “As a married man, Mohammed raped Aisha when she was nine; he was fifty-four.”

Wafa Sultan’s depiction of Prophet Muhammad as a child rapist seems to be a manifestation of her hatred of Muslims in general. She has no evidence of any rape having taken place nor does she have a record of Aisha’s age. However, what she does possess is a rage against her former faith that she expresses with wild abandon.

 

[Meathead]

Come on, please tell us about the little girl he raped. What was her name, Aisha or something like that?

Did Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, rape a nine-year old girl called Aisha?
The allegation that the Prophet Muhammad married Aisha in the year 624AD when she was only a nine-year old girl, is not new.

However, the fact this controversy has surfaced on rightwing blogs, is something that has caught a lot of Muslims by surprise. It was sparked by a lecture in Toronto where the former Muslim, Syrian-American Wafa Sultan claimed, “As a married man, Mohammed raped Aisha when she was nine; he was fifty-four.”

Wafa Sultan’s depiction of Prophet Muhammad as a child rapist seems to be a manifestation of her hatred of Muslims in general. She has no evidence of any rape having taken place nor does she have a record of Aisha’s age. However, what she does possess is a rage against her former faith that she expresses with wild abandon.

Please, that information goes way beyond that woman and is acknowledged by Islamic scholars.

Age at marriage
See also: Criticism of Muhammad#Aisha and Child marriage
According to Muslim scholars, most of the hadith about Aisha is fabricated.[6][8][9] According to the traditional sources, Aisha was six or seven years old when she was betrothed to Muhammad and nine when the marriage was consummated.[6][8][9] Aisha stayed in her parents' home for several years until she joined Muhammad and the marriage was consummated when she was nine.[6][8][9][10][11][12] However, al-Tabari records that she was ten.[8] The sources do not offer much more information about Aisha's childhood years, but mention that after the wedding, she continued to play with her toys, and that Muhammad entered into the spirit of these games.[13]

Aisha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I don't particularly hate Islam, but I am no fan of pedophiles.

 

[emptystep]

Come on, please tell us about the little girl he raped. What was her name, Aisha or something like that?

Did Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, rape a nine-year old girl called Aisha?
The allegation that the Prophet Muhammad married Aisha in the year 624AD when she was only a nine-year old girl, is not new.

However, the fact this controversy has surfaced on rightwing blogs, is something that has caught a lot of Muslims by surprise. It was sparked by a lecture in Toronto where the former Muslim, Syrian-American Wafa Sultan claimed, “As a married man, Mohammed raped Aisha when she was nine; he was fifty-four.”

Wafa Sultan’s depiction of Prophet Muhammad as a child rapist seems to be a manifestation of her hatred of Muslims in general. She has no evidence of any rape having taken place nor does she have a record of Aisha’s age. However, what she does possess is a rage against her former faith that she expresses with wild abandon.

Please, that information goes way beyond that woman and is acknowledged by Islamic scholars.

Age at marriage
See also: Criticism of Muhammad#Aisha and Child marriage
According to Muslim scholars, most of the hadith about Aisha is fabricated.[6][8][9] According to the traditional sources, Aisha was six or seven years old when she was betrothed to Muhammad and nine when the marriage was consummated.[6][8][9] Aisha stayed in her parents' home for several years until she joined Muhammad and the marriage was consummated when she was nine.[6][8][9][10][11][12] However, al-Tabari records that she was ten.[8] The sources do not offer much more information about Aisha's childhood years, but mention that after the wedding, she continued to play with her toys, and that Muhammad entered into the spirit of these games.[13]

Aisha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I don't particularly hate Islam, but I am no fan of pedophiles.

Age of Aisha (ra) at time of marriage
“A great misconception prevails as to the age at which Aisha was taken in marriage by the Prophet. Ibn Sa‘d has stated in the Tabaqat that when Abu Bakr [father of Aisha] was approached on behalf of the Holy Prophet, he replied that the girl had already been betrothed to Jubair, and that he would have to settle the matter first with him. This shows that Aisha must have been approaching majority at the time. Again, the Isaba, speaking of the Prophet’s daughter Fatima, says that she was born five years before the Call and was about five years older than Aisha. This shows that Aisha must have been about ten years at the time of her betrothal to the Prophet, and not six years as she is generally supposed to be. This is further borne out by the fact that Aisha herself is reported to have stated that when the chapter [of the Holy Quran] entitled The Moon, the fifty-fourth chapter, was revealed, she was a girl playing about and remembered certain verses then revealed. Now the fifty-fourth chapter was undoubtedly revealed before the sixth year of the Call. All these considerations point to but one conclusion, viz., that Aisha could not have been less than ten years of age at the time of her nikah, which was virtually only a betrothal. And there is one report in the Tabaqat that Aisha was nine years of age at the time of nikah. Again it is a fact admitted on all hands that the nikah of Aisha took place in the tenth year of the Call in the month of Shawwal, while there is also preponderance of evidence as to the consummation of her marriage taking place in the second year of Hijra in the same month, which shows that full five years had elapsed between the nikah and the consummation. Hence there is not the least doubt that Aisha was at least nine or ten years of age at the time of betrothal, and fourteen or fifteen years at the time of marriage.” [4] (Bolding is mine.)

 

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“A great misconception prevails as to the age at which Aisha was taken in marriage by the Prophet. Ibn Sa‘d has stated in the Tabaqat that when Abu Bakr [father of Aisha] was approached on behalf of the Holy Prophet, he replied that the girl had already been betrothed to Jubair, and that he would have to settle the matter first with him. This shows that Aisha must have been approaching majority at the time. Again, the Isaba, speaking of the Prophet’s daughter Fatima, says that she was born five years before the Call and was about five years older than Aisha. This shows that Aisha must have been about ten years at the time of her betrothal to the Prophet, and not six years as she is generally supposed to be. This is further borne out by the fact that Aisha herself is reported to have stated that when the chapter [of the Holy Quran] entitled The Moon, the fifty-fourth chapter, was revealed, she was a girl playing about and remembered certain verses then revealed. Now the fifty-fourth chapter was undoubtedly revealed before the sixth year of the Call. All these considerations point to but one conclusion, viz., that Aisha could not have been less than ten years of age at the time of her nikah, which was virtually only a betrothal. And there is one report in the Tabaqat that Aisha was nine years of age at the time of nikah. Again it is a fact admitted on all hands that the nikah of Aisha took place in the tenth year of the Call in the month of Shawwal, while there is also preponderance of evidence as to the consummation of her marriage taking place in the second year of Hijra in the same month, which shows that full five years had elapsed between the nikah and the consummation. Hence there is not the least doubt that Aisha was at least nine or ten years of age at the time of betrothal, and fourteen or fifteen years at the time of marriage.” [4] (Bolding is mine.)

Muslim.org?! Seriously? An Islamic site in English? I guess what that proves is that you can support any argument with a link from some partisan website, but little more. The guy raped a 9 year-old girl, and he is worshiped by 1 and a half billion people, go figure!

 

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OK, Meathead, you owe me one. For your stupid little comment I just got forty minutes of every last little detail of who married, who was related to whom, why certain people did this and why certain people did that. My Iranian wife went to one of the best, if the not the best, girls school in Tehran and I would put her up against any scholar you can find for depth and breath of knowledge of Islam.

Aisha was daughter of Abu Bakr, as wiki states. Abu Bakr had a great estate or something of that nature. He gave his daughter to Muhammad as way of connecting the families. Abu Bakr was kind of an old wise man and although died only two years after Muhammad was a older man so his daughter could well have been older than what she would have been if the two men were of equal age. Also referring to Aisha as a young child could have been more of a qualitative than quantitative description. If you ever want to discuss their age with an Iranian woman make sure I am a state or two away. So after Muhammad's death Abu Bakr used his relation to Muhammad, through his daughter Aisha to claim leadership of Islam rather than the heretical heir who was considered by some as too young. That was the start of the Shiite and Sunni separation. My wife is Shiite in case you're curious. Supposedly Aisha was a rather devious one and was spoken about with great distaste. Your whole issue with Aisha's age is rather misplaced anger.

On other note on my education was the matter of multiple wives. Muhammad apparently stated the law that a man could take up to four wives given that he could care for them equally was to help support the many widows and their children that were without a means to support themselves at the time. She detests its misuse today especially by the mullahs.

 

[ecks_why]

...The greatness of Islam...

STFU

... zzzz ....

^^ another brain dead mooselimb apologist

the koran tells mooselimbs over 90 times to follow the footsteps of the pedophile psycho lunatic murdering warlord mohamhead, so what does a devout mooselimb do ??

child marriages are still quite popular in islamic countries today...

http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&safe=off&q=islam+child+marriages

as are camel jockey jihadis

TO HELL WITH ISLAM

 

[Meathead]

OK, Meathead, you owe me one. For your stupid little comment I just got forty minutes of every last little detail of who married, who was related to whom, why certain people did this and why certain people did that. My Iranian wife went to one of the best, if the not the best, girls school in Tehran and I would put her up against any scholar you can find for depth and breath of knowledge of Islam.

Aisha was daughter of Abu Bakr, as wiki states. Abu Bakr had a great estate or something of that nature. He gave his daughter to Muhammad as way of connecting the families. Abu Bakr was kind of an old wise man and although died only two years after Muhammad was a older man so his daughter could well have been older than what she would have been if the two men were of equal age. Also referring to Aisha as a young child could have been more of a qualitative than quantitative description. If you ever want to discuss their age with an Iranian woman make sure I am a state or two away. So after Muhammad's death Abu Bakr used his relation to Muhammad, through his daughter Aisha to claim leadership of Islam rather than the heretical heir who was considered by some as too young. That was the start of the Shiite and Sunni separation. My wife is Shiite in case you're curious. Supposedly Aisha was a rather devious one and was spoken about with great distaste. Your whole issue with Aisha's age is rather misplaced anger.

On other note on my education was the matter of multiple wives. Muhammad apparently stated the law that a man could take up to four wives given that he could care for them equally was to help support the many widows and their children that were without a means to support themselves at the time. She detests its misuse today especially by the mullahs.

I am not concerned with your wife, where she hails from, what she thinks she knows nor the schisms of Islam. Muhammad was a psychotic pedophile who was responsible for carnage in the days of yore and whose legacy still today is one of medieval oppression and fanaticism.