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Starting with the unsought of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, those that received the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in Medina, so as we're kind of now leaning towards that direction of the Hijrah and what precedes the Hijrah as we have been doing when speaking about the companions from Abyssinia, we want to cover inshallah's hada just a few more people and some of them honestly could have been full episodes, some of them could have been episode 51, 52 in the beginning of when we transitioned to the shorts.

But may Allah SWT be pleased with them all. They are phenomenal individuals and people we have much to benefit from. When you think about a front seat of history and of some of the most consequential events in Islam, I can't think of many people that had a better view than Ahmadi bin Ufuhairah, who we are speaking about today.

Ahmadi bin Ufuhairah, he was someone who was born into slavery and who was of Abyssinian descent. So his whole life was one of being enslaved and he was particularly enslaved to a man by the name of Tufail, Ibn Abdullah al-Azdi.

Now, Tufail was the step son of Abu Bakr al-Sadiq al-Allahu tala'anuh. So the way that this happens is that Abu Bakr al-Allahu tala'anuh married a woman by the name of Umrumman, al-Allahu a'nha, and she is the mother of A'isha, al-Allahu tala'anuh.

Now, when Abu Bakr married Umrumman, she was a widow at that point and Tufail was the son of Umrumman from her previous husband.

So Tufail is the step son of Abu Bakr al-Allahu tala'anuh, as well as, of course, the half-brother of A'isha, al-Allahu tala'anuh, and that they share the same mother.

So when Abu Bakr al-Allahu tala'anuh accepts Islam, we know that Abu Bakr al-Allahu tala'anuh frees many of those who were enslaved, particularly those who were being tortured for being Muslim.

It was already a habit of Abu Bakr al-Sadiq al-Allahu tala'anuh to free people from captivity.

But now, particularly, the righteous Muslim slaves that were being tortured by their captors.

And in the case of Amr ibn Al-Fuhairah, al-Allahu tala'anuh, Amr ibn Al-Fuhairah was someone who embraced Islam very early on as a slave.

He accepted Islam before Dara-Narqam. So he's one of the first of the first, as we said, those are the earliest of the Muslims.

And when he embraced Islam, Amr ibn Al-Fuhairah, al-Allahu tala'anuh, was tortured in the worst of ways.

And what is written about him is literally that there is not a torture tactic except that they experimented on Amr ibn Al-Fuhairah,

al-Allahu tala'anuh, with one of those torture tactics.

And so they tried the hot coal, burning hot coal and letting it drip down his back, which is a form of torture that is famously attributed to Khabab

al-Allahu tala'anuh, who we know Abu Bakr al-Allahu tala'anuh, freed.

He was tried with sleep deprivation. Dehydration was not a lot food for several days, was dragged through the streets, was chained and beaten by random people.

So the torture tactics were plentiful against him. And it's not actually spelled out who was the one who tortured him.

So whether it was Tulfaid who would not become Muslim until much later on, or if it was just some people from the tribe,

and of course, people of this status were fair game for the elites of Mecca to try them in multiple ways and in multiple contexts.

So the point is, is that he's being tortured in multiple ways.

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