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The Life of Muhammad
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which overlooked the men below. He stuck the toothpick m IS mo~t d
and went out to the guards, who in coarse language mqUlred what ad
h d I 'Ask that head' he replied. They looked at the wmdow an
t~~:.e::.'Lakhni'a's head ~ut off. So they went in pursuit of Dhu Nuwas
and said: 'You must be our king and no one else, seemg that you have nd
us of this disgusting fellow.' (29)'
THE REIGN OF DHU NUWAS
They made him king and all the tribes of I.Iimyar joined him. H,e was the
last of the Yamani kings and the man who had the dItch made. He was
called Joseph and reigned for some considerable time. ., ,_
In Najran there were some people' who held the relIgiOn of Isa b.
Ma am a virtuous and upright people who followed the Gospel. TheIr
he':;w~ naIjled 'Abdullah b. al-Thamir. The place where ,that relIgiOn
. N' -an at that time the centre of the Arabs country I Its
took
root was In 3JT I .' b
'eo Ie and indeed the rest of the Arabs, were idolaters. A ChrIstIan y
fhe ~a;"e of Faymiyun had settled there and converted the people to hIS
religion.
THE BEGINNING OF CHRISTIANITY IN NAJRAN
Al M h-ra b Abu Labid a freedman of al-Akhnas, on the authority ?f
W~hbuf. ~un'abbih the Y~mani told me that the origin ?f Chrisuamty m
Na'ran was due to a man named Faymiyun who was a nghteous, earnest,
as:etic man whose prayers wefe answered. He used to wander betwheen
h became known in one to\VI1 he moved to anot er,
21 towns' as soon as e . db' ks
eatin 'only what he earned, for he was a builder by trade usmg mu nc .
He u~d to keep Sunday as a day of rest and would do no work then: He
used to a into a desert place and pray there until the evenmg. WhIle he
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