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Dec 2024
39m 23s

Addas (ra) of Ta’if: The Brother of Yunu...

YAQEEN INSTITUTE
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As the Prophet ﷺ lay battered and beaten in the garden after Ta’if, Allah sent him this one special slave who would be the only known human convert on the worst day of the Prophet ﷺ’s life. 
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