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me what has brought you here?’ Abu Dhar said: ‘If you give me a solemn promise that<br />
you will guide me, then I will tell you.’ `<strong>Al</strong>ee promised him, and he informed `<strong>Al</strong>ee about<br />
the matter. `<strong>Al</strong>ee said: ‘It is true, and he is the Messenger of <strong>Al</strong>laah, when it is morning,<br />
follow me, and if I see any danger for you, I will stop as if to pass water, but if I go on,<br />
follow me and enter the place which I will enter.’ Abu Dhar did so, and followed `<strong>Al</strong>ee<br />
till he entered the place of the Prophet ,ﷺ and Abu Dhar went in with him, Abu Dhar<br />
listened to some of the Prophet’s talks and embraced Islaam on the spot. The Prophet<br />
said to him: ❝Go back to your people and inform them (about it) (and stay ﷺ<br />
there) till you receive my command.❞ Abu Dhar said: ‘By Him in Whose Hand is my<br />
life, I will proclaim my conversion loudly amongst them (i.e. the pagans).’ So he went<br />
out, and when he reached the Masjid, he said as loudly as possible: ‘I bear witness that<br />
none has the right to be worshiped except <strong>Al</strong>laah, and Muḥammad is the Messenger of<br />
<strong>Al</strong>laah.’ The People got up and beat him badly. Then al-`Abbaas came and knelt over<br />
him (to protect him) and said (to the people): ‘Woe to you! Don’t you know that this<br />
man belongs to the tribe of Ghifaar and your trade to Shaam is through their way?’ So<br />
he rescued him from them. Abu Dhar again did the same the next day. They beat him<br />
and took vengeance on him and again al-Abbas knelt over him (and rescued him).” 187<br />
This is the wording of al-Bukhaaree.<br />
In Ṣaḥeeḥ Muslim and Musnad Aḥmad, there is a more detailed narration of his<br />
conversion to Islaam.<br />
`Abdullaah Ibn al-Ṣaamit reported that Abu Dharr رضيُاهللُعنه said: “We set out from our<br />
tribe Ghifaar, who used to regard the sacred months as permissible (for fighting). I set<br />
out with my brother Unais and our mother, and we stayed with a maternal uncle of<br />
ours. Our uncle honored us and treated us kindly, but his people felt jealous of us, and<br />
they said: ‘When you are away from your wife, Unais comes into your house (i.e., an<br />
accusation of adultery).’ Our uncle came and told us of what had been said to him. I<br />
said: ‘As for your past kindness, you have undone it, and we cannot stay with you after<br />
this.’ We went to our camels and loaded them up, and our uncle covered himself with<br />
his garment and started weeping. We set out and halted at Makkah. Unais made a<br />
wager that our herd of camels was better than another similar herd, and they went to a<br />
soothsayer and he made Unais win and Unais came with our camels and an equal<br />
number along with them.”<br />
187 Ṣaḥeeḥ al-Bukhaaree (3522, 3861) and Ṣaḥeeḥ Muslim (2474-133), <strong>Al</strong>-Ḥaakim also reported it in his “al-<br />
Mustadrak”, and said that they (al-Bukhaaree and Muslim) did not report it, but this was his imagination.<br />
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