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Aug 2023
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Burayda ibn al-Husayb (ra): An Unlikely ...

YAQEEN INSTITUTE
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When the Prophet ﷺ suddenly encounters a chief of a nomad tribe during the Hijra, more people embrace Islam in the desert in an instant than at any point in the years preceding of the Prophetic call.

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