ʿAbd Yalīl al-Laythī, allies of Banū ʿAdī; ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir ibn ʿĀmir al-ʿAnsī—spelled with a nūn (1)—an ally of Banū Makhzūm; Suhayb ibn Sinān ibn Mālik al-Namirī, Roman by upbringing, whose allegiance was to ʿAbd Allāh ibn Judʿān; Abū Dharr Jundub ibn Junādah al-Ghifārī; and Abū Nujayḥ ʿAmr ibn ʿAbasah al-Sulamī al-Bajalī, although the last two returned to their homelands.

These fifty (2) are the earliest forerunners.

After them embraced Islam the Lion of Allah, Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, and al-Fārūq ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, the pride of the religion—may Allah be pleased with them all.

7 – Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr ibn Hāshim ibn ʿAbd Manāf al-Badrī, of the line of ʿAbd al-Dār ibn Quṣayy ibn Kilāb: a nobleman, a martyr, one of the earliest (3), a combatant at Badr, a Qurashī of the ʿAbd al-Dār clan.

Al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib said: “The first of the Emigrants to come to us was Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr.”

We asked him, “How is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him?”

He replied, “He is where he has always been, and his Companions are right behind me.” Then—