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Mohammed Zulahy with Berkat everyone. Bism now al-A-Lah al-Salat-A-Szam. Sala Māmah mārādāwāwāwāwāwāwāwāwālāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhābābāhābāhābāhāhābābāhābāāāāābāāābāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā Last week on the first we talked about Jafar Ibn Abit alib,

Radea al-Tah al-Anhuh who played such an instrumental role

in taking Islam to Abyssinia, taking Islam to a place

that would grant refuge to some of the most noble

companions of the Prophet, so Allah al-A-I-Wah al-I-Wasanam as they first entered into Islam.

And when we got to the conversation between him and Najashiashi, the ruler of Abicinia, known as the Negus or his name,

Osama, what the Allah Ta al-Anhu, we kind of paraphrase it because I wanted to give this its own special episode and what we're going to be doing in sha al-sahada as we go through

Osama today is that we'll go through the next few of the companions of the Prophet

Salla is Sal them whose stories were not only connected to them

embracing Islam very early on,

but whose stories also run through Abyssinia.

So the likes of Abu Salama and Ums Salama and Umsalma

and a Zubair. May Allah be pleased with them all,

which allows us to really appreciate the central role that Abyssinia plays, the migration

to Abyssinia plays in the early days of Islam, as well as the central role that the man who made it happen plays

and he is a Najashi, Osama Radi al-O-Lahahahinhuh.

So his name is Osama Ibn Abjar and Najashi.

As we said, Negus, which is the equivalent to Caesar or Hosro,

is the title of the ruler, and Osama is his actual name. He was the king of his empire which is in

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