Saheeh Seerah Al Albaanee English

This is what is generally accepted among the majority of Ahl al-Sunnah.
In Ṣaḥeeḥ al-Bukhaaree 177 it is reported that `Ammaar رضي ‏ُاهلل ‏ُعنه said: “I saw Allaah’s
Messenger ﷺ and there was none with him but five slaves, 178 two women and Abu
Bakr (i.e. those were the only converts to Islaam then).”
It was narrated that `Abdullaah Ibn Mas`ood رضيُاهللُعنه said: “The first people to declare
their Islaam publicly were seven: The Messenger of Allaah, Abu Bakr, `Ammaar and his
mother Sumayyah, Suhaib, Bilaal and Miqdaad. With regard to the Messenger of
Allaah, Allaah protected him through his paternal uncle Abu Ṭaalib. With regard to Abu
Bakr, Allaah protected him through his people. As for the rest, the idolaters seized them
and made them wear coats of chain-mail and exposed them to the intense heat of the
sun. There was none of them except he (under coercion) did what they wanted them to
do, except for Bilaal. He did not care what happened to him for the sake of Allaah, and
his people did not care what happened to him. Then they gave him to the children who
took him around in the streets of Makkah while he was saying: ‘Aḥad, Aḥad (One,
One).’” 179
And it is reported in Ṣaḥeeḥ Muslim, 180 from the Ḥadeeth of Abee Umaamah al-
Baahilee رضي ‏ُاهلل ‏ُعنه that `Amr Ibn `Abasah رضي ‏ُاهلل ‏ُعنه said: “I came to the Messenger of
177 Ṣaḥeeḥ al-Bukhaaree (3660, 3857)
178 I (al-Albaanee) say: One the slave was Bilaal ‏,رضيُاهللُعنه as will be mentioned in the next Ḥadeeth.
Al-Ḥaafiẓh (Ibn Ḥajar) said: “In this Ḥadeeth, it is: Abu Bakr was the first one from the freemen to accept Islaam
without a doubt. But what `Ammaar here meant was those people who publicly declared their Islaam, otherwise,
there was already a group who had accepted Islaam, but they hid their Islaam from their relatives. For Sa`d (Ibn
Abee Waqqaaṣ) رضيُاهللُعنه had said: “No doubt, (for some time) I stood for one-third of the Muslims.” [Ṣaḥeeḥ al-
Bukhaaree (3726)] He (Sa`d) said this because - from the people who had already accepted Islaam - this is what
was known to him at that time.”
I (al-Albaanee) say: There were others like Abu Dharr and `Amr Ibn `Absah who said that they were one-fourth of
Islaam, which the author (Ibn Katheer) mentioned next.
179 Musnad Aḥmad (3832) and Sunan Ibn Maajah (150) and graded as “Ḥasan” by Shaikh al-Albaanee. Al-Ḥaakim
also reported it in “al-Mustadrak” (5238) and said it is “Ṣaḥeeḥ”, and al-Dhahabee agreed with him, but Shaikh al-
Albaanee said: It only reaches to the level of “Ḥasan” because of `Aaṣim Ibn Abee al-Nujood, as they differed
about him.
180 (Shaikh al-Albaanee said): Imaam Muslim reported in his Ṣaḥeeḥ (832-294) in the Chapter: The prayer of the
travelers, but with different wording, and that narration is longer than this. The narration with this wording was
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