The Pledge of 'Aqaba

E-snad · Sîra
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Six men at a pass, twelve the next year, then seventy-three in the third of the night.

Episodes

  1. Episode 1 · free

    Six men at the pass

    For years he ﷺ offered himself to the tribes at the fairs, and no one took him in. Then, at a pass near Minâ, he met a few men from Yathrib. The story of al-'Aqaba begins there.

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  2. Episode 2

    Twelve men, and the women's pledge

    The next year, twelve men came to the same pass. What exactly did they promise? One of them, 'Ubâda ibn as-Sâmit, kept the words.

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  3. Episode 3

    Seventy-three, in the third of the night

    The following season, the Muslims of Yathrib came with the pilgrims of their people, who knew nothing. Ka'b ibn Mâlik was among them. This is his account.

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