To Abyssinia

E-snad · Sîra
Coming soon in audio

Leaving home to keep your faith: who went, why that land, and who came back.

Episodes

  1. Episode 1 · free

    A king under whom no one is wronged

    Mecca had become a place where believing could cost you your skin. This book is about leaving. Why that land, so far away, across the sea? And who gave the idea?

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  2. Episode 2

    Who left, and who came back

    The biographers kept the names. Ten first, then a man of the Prophet's ﷺ own house, then dozens more. Then came news that made many of them turn back. What was it, and was it true?

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  3. Episode 3

    Two emigrations

    A ship that left Yemen for Medina and landed in Abyssinia instead. Years with Ja'far. Then Khaybar. What did the Prophet ﷺ say to those who came back so late?

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