Wednesday, April 10, 2013

“His Daddy was Black. His Momma was Black. So…” A Look at Prophet Muhammad’s Lineage


By Wesley Muhammad, PhD © 2013



The Prophet Muhammad of Arabia was a pure Arab from the Banū Hāshim clan of the Quraysh tribe. Not only were the original and true Arabs black (aswad, akhar, udma), but the Prophet’s particular tribe and clan were famously black. As Robert F. Spencer remarks: “It is said that the Quraysh explained their short stature and dark skin by the fact that they always carefully adhered to endogamy,”[1] and Henry Lammens took notice of “les Hāśimites, famille où dominait le sang nègre” (“the Hashimites, the family where Black blood dominated”), remarking further that the Banū Hāshim are “généralement qualifies de ﺁﺪﻢ = couleur foncée” (“generally described as ādam = dark colored”).[2]

These Western observations are in complete accord with the confessions found in Classical Arabic/Islamic literature. Ibn Manūr (d. 1311), author of the most authoritative classical Arabic lexicon, Lisān al-‘arab, notes the opinion that the phrase aswad al-jilda, ‘black-skinned,’ idiomatically meant khāli al-‘arab, “the pure Arabs,” “because the color of most of the Arabs is dark (al-udma).”[3] In other words, blackness of skin among the Arabs indicated purity of Arab ethnicity. Likewise, the famous grammarian from the century prior, Muhammad b. Barrī al-‘Adawī (d. 1193) noted that an Akhar or black-skinned Arab was “a pure Arab (‘arabī maḥḍ)” with a pure genealogy, “because Arabs describe their color as black (al-aswad)”[4] Al-Jai (d. 869), in his Fakhr al-sūdān ‘alā l-bidan, declared: “The Arabs pride themselves in (their) black color, تفخر بسواد اللون العرب (al-‘arab tafkhar bi-sawād al-lawn)”[5] Finally Al-Mubarrad (d. 898), the leading figure in the Basran grammatical tradition, took this a step further when he claimed:

“The Arabs used to take pride in their brown and black complexion (al-sumra wa al-sawād) and they had a distaste for a white and fair complexion (al-umra wa al-shaqra), and they used to say that such was the complexion of the non-Arabs.”[6]

If Muhammad was in fact a pure Arab, how could he have been Caucasian or pale complexioned, the characteristic trait of non-Arabs within the Hejaz? This question is the more urgent when we consider that, not only was his Arab tribe and clan notably black-skinned, but so too was his immediate and extended family.


I.                    Paternal Blackness

‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib (d. 578) was the Prophet’s paternal grandfather and, as an Hāshimī Arab, he was (as expected) black-skinned. Muhammad b. ‘Umar Bahriq al-Hadramī, in his book al-Anwār wa matāli’i al-asrār fī sīrat al-Nabī al-Mukhtar, reports: “Concerning ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib…he was [dark] brown (asmar) complexioned.” This dark brown Arab fathered sons with Arab women from clans who were even blacker than his own clan and these sons will be even blacker than he. Al-Jāi noted:

“The ten lordly sons of ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib were deep black (dalham) in color and big/tall (ukhm). When Amir b. al-ufayl saw them circumambulating (the Ka’ba) like dark camels, he said, ‘With such men as these is the custody of the Ka’ba preserved.”  ‘Abd Allah b. ‘Abbās was very black and tall. Those of Abū ālib’s family, who are the most noble of men, are black (sūd).”[7]
    
 Dalham is a very deep black or ‘jet black.’ ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib’s ten dalham sons were: ārith, ‘Abd al-‘Uzzā (Abū Lahab), Abū ālib, al-Zubayr, ‘Abd Allah, amza, Muqūm, al-‘Abbās, Hijl, and Zarrar. All ten were black Arabs of the Banū Hāshim, including ‘Abd Allah, the Prophet’s father.  Yes, the Holy Prophet’s father was a jet black Arab! So too were the Prophet’s uncles and cousins.

Uncles and Cousins

1. Hamza b. ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib. The Prophet’s famous paternal uncle, Hamza (d. 625), famously called “The Lion of God,” was black-skinned. Abū Dā’ūd (d. 819), in his text Musnad al-Tayālisī, reports: “(The Ethiopian slave) Wahsi (b. Harb) said: ‘…I saw Hamza as if he were an awraq (colored) camel…” According to Ibn Manūr (s.v.) awraq, from wurqa, means an asmar or (dark) brown complexion.      

2. ‘Abd al-‘Uzzā b. ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib and Descendants. More popularly known as Abū Lahab or “Father of the Flame” (d. 624), this was the uncle infamously hostile to the Prophet. He too was dalham “jet black” according to al-Jai and others. According to a report found in the Musnad of Imam Amad b. anbal (d. 855), Abū Lahab’s appearance was “luminous, with two braids; the most abya and the most handsome of the people (#16020).” Abya used here to describe Abū Lahab’s complexion does not mean white or fair-skinned. According to the Classical Arabic linguistic phenomenon called al-addad (“Opposites”), it means “black (aswad) but free of blemish (al-kalaf) and giving off a luminous glow (a-hintī al-lawn).”[8]

This is demonstrated further by the example of Abū Lahab’s great grandson, the seventh century CE Qurayshī poet, al-Fal b. al-‘Abbās (d. 714). Al-Fal himself and his mother, Amīna, were cousins of the Prophet.  Called al-Akhar al-Lahabī “The Flaming Black,” Al-Fal is well-known for both his blackness and his genealogical purity. He recited these famous words:

I am the black-skinned one (al-Akhar). I am well-known.
My complexion is black. I am from the noble house of the Arabs.[9]

This black-skinnedness of al-Fal is due to his Arab genealogy, not to some ‘negro admixture’ as some deniers would have us think. Ibn Manūr notes the opinion that al-Fal is al-Akhar or aswad al-jilda, ‘Black-skinned’, because he is from khāli al-‘arab, the pure Arabs, “because the color of most of the Arabs is dark (al-udma).”[10] Similarly Ibn Barrī (d. 1193) said: “He (al- Fal) means by this that his genealogy is pure and that he is a pure Arab (‘arabī maḥḍ) because Arabs describe their color as black (al-aswad).”[11] Thus, according to these Classical Arabic/Islamic scholars, al-Fal’s blackness (akhar) is the visual mark of his pure, Qurayshī background. This is the cousin to the Qurayshī prophet, Muhammad.

3. Al-‘Abbās b. ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib and Descendants.  Al-‘Abbās (d. 652) is the patronym and root of the Banū ‘Abbās, after which the ‘Abbāsid dynasty was named. He was a dalham uncle of the Prophet and fathered an important first cousin of the Prophet also noted for his deep blackness: ‘Abd Allāh b. ‘Abbās (d. 687), famed for being Tarjuman al-Qur’an, “THE Interpreter of the Qur’an.” Al-Jāi describes him as “very black and tall.” The Syrian scholar and historian al-Dhahabī (d. 1348) too reported that ‘Abd Allāh b. ‘Abbās and his son, ‘Alī b. ‘Abd Allāh, were “very dark-skinned.”[12] When al-Dhahabī reports also that ‘Abd Allāh b. ‘Abbās “was abya, imbued with sufra (yellowish black), tall and bulky, handsome,”[13] we know there is no contradiction here. Abya as a human complexion means “black (aswad) but free of blemish (al-kalaf) and giving off a luminous glow (a-hintī al-lawn).”

4. Abū ālib b. ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib and Descendants. Abū ālib (d. 619), brother of the Prophet’s father ‘Abd Allāh and stalwart of the Prophet until his death in 619, was dalham or jet black like his brother.  Al-Jāi confirms further that “those of Abū ālib’s family, who are the most noble (genealogically pure) of men, are black (sūd).” This fact is further confirmed for Abū ālib’s famous son, ‘Alī b. Abū ālib (d. 661), the first cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet, and also the father of the Prophet’s only grandsons al-Hasan and al-Husayn.  ‘Alī, the fourth of the Rightly Guided Caliphs (Khulafā’ Rāshidūn) is the central figure of Shiite Islam. For the latter, ‘Alī is considered the first Imam and he and his descendants are considered the legitimate successors of the Prophet. That ‘Alī b. Abū ālib was a black-skinned Arab is pointed out by al-Suyūī, who describes him as “husky, bald…pot-bellied, large-bearded…and jet-black (ādam shadīd al-udma).”[14] ‘Alī’s own son, Abū Ja’far Muhammad, according to Ibn Sa’d (d. 845), described ‘Alī thusly: “He was a black-skinned man with big, heavy eyes, pot-bellied, bald, and kind of short.”[15] ‘Alī’s descendents, the sharīfs/sayyids, were similarly described as black-skinned.[16] This ‘family blackness’ of Abū ālib is very significant for our discussion of the appearance of the Prophet because Abū ālib’s son Ja‘far, who is the elder brother of ‘Alī and is known as al-Hāshimī, “The Hāshimite.” Ja’far is “one of Muhammad’s kinsmen who most closely resembled him.”[17] Indeed, Muhammad himself is reported to have said to his black-skinned cousin: “You resemble me both in appearance and character (ashbahta khalqī wa khuluqī).”[18]      

  
Descendants

Muhammad b. ‘Abd Allāh (d. 762), known also as al-Nafs al-Zakiyya (“The Pure Soul”), was a pure descendant of the Prophet himself through the latter’s daughter Fāimah, wife of ‘Alī b. Abū ālib.  Al-Nafs al-Zakiyya “prided himself on being a Qurayshi of pure lineage…[with] a pure descent from the Prophet,”[19]and could boast: “I am at the very center of the Banū Hāshim’s (genealogical) lines. My paternity is purest among them, undiluted with non-Arab blood, and no concubines dispute over me.”[20] What did this pure Arab descendent of the pure Arab Prophet look like? “Muhammad (Al-Nafs al-Zakiyya) is described as tall and strong with very dark skin”.[21]  Indeed, al-Dhahabī describes him as “black-skinned and huge.”[22] But it is al-abarī’s description that is most informative:

“Muhammad (Al-Nafs al-Zakiyya) was black, exceedingly black, jet black (ādam shadīd al-udma adlam) and huge. He was nicknamed “Tar Face” (al-qārī) because of his black complexion (udmatihi), such that Abū Ja’far used to call him “Charcoal Face” (al-muammam).”[23]

Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya was a Qurayshī Arab whose pure lineage on both his father’s and his mother’s side put him “at the center” of the genealogical lines of the Banū Hāshim, the Prophet’s kinsfolk; indeed he was famously of pure descent from the Prophet himself. The fact that he was so black he was called ‘Tar face’ and ‘Charcoal face’ is of significance for our discussion of the ethnicity of the Prophet himself.

II.                 Maternal Blackness

Amīna bt. Wahb, the mother of the Prophet Muhammad, hailed from the Banū Zuhra, a black sub-clan of the black Quraysh tribe.[24]  Amīna is the daughter of Wahb b. ‘Abd Manāf b. Zuhra whose mother (Amīna’s grandmother) is said to be ‘Ātika bt. al-Awqa from the exceptionally black Banū Sulaym.[25] The black Sulaym are thus considered the maternal uncles of the prophet and he is therefore reported to have said: “I am the son of the many ‘Ātikas of Sulaym.”[26] In other words, Amīna’s paternal grandmother is from the black Sulaym tribe, and her grandfather ‘Abd Manāf was from the Zuhra tribe. Banū Zuhra tribesmen were frequently noted for their blackness, especially the maternal relatives of the Prophet Muhammad. See for example the famous Sa’d b. Abī Waqqās (d. 646), cousin of Amīna and uncle of the prophet Muhammad. He is described as very dark or black (ādam), tall and flat-nosed.[27] Muhammad, it should be noted, was quite proud of his uncle Sa’d. We are told that once Muhammad was sitting with some of his companions and Sa’d walked by. The prophet stopped and taunted: “That’s my uncle. Let any man show me his uncle.”[28] Relevant too is al-Aswad b. ‘Abd Yaghūth of the Banū Zuhra, Amīna’s nephew and thus the Prophet’s maternal cousin. He is called in later literature al-Aswad, “The Black,” because he was black-skinned (aswad al-lawn).[29]  

III.               Pan-Arab Blackness

Muhammad had more than just Qurayshī blackness running through his paternal veins as well. His great, great grandfather was ‘Abd Manāf who bore with ‘Ātika bt. Murra al-Sulaymī the prophet’s great grandfather āshim. That is to say that the prophet’s great, great grandmother was from the jet-black Banū Sulaym. āshim, the great grandfather, bore with Salmā bt. ‘Amrū ’l-Khazrajī the prophet’s grandfather, ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib. This means that his paternal great grandmother was from the black Medinese tribe Banū Khazraj.[30]

I will leave it to persons much smarter than I to tell us how a black-skinned Arab clan from a black-skinned Arab tribe can produce a family of black-skinned Arab uncles, cousins, father and mother, who in turn gave birth to a Caucasian or white skinned non-albino boy. 

Notes

[1] Robert F. Spencer, “The Arabian Matriarchate: An Old Controversy,” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 8 (Winter, 1952) 488. See further Muhammad, Black Arabia, 173-178.
[2] Études sur le siècle des Omayyades (Beirut: Imprimerie Calholique, 1930) 44.
[3] Ibn Manūr, Lisān al-‘arab (Beirut: Dar al-Sadir - Dar al-Bayrut, 1955-1956) s.v. اخضر IV:245f; See also Edward William Lane, Arabic-English Lexicon (London: Williams & Norgate 1863) I: 756 s.v. خضر .
[4] Ibn Manūr, Lisān al-‘arab, s.v. اخضر IV:245.
[5] Al-Jāi, Fakhr al-sūdān ‘alā l-bidan, in Risa’il Al-Jahiz, 4 vols. (Cairo, 1964)  I:207. See also the English translation by T. Khalidi, “The Boast of the Blacks Over the Whites,” Islamic Quarterly 25 (1981): 3-26 (17). See further Ignaz Goldziher, Muslim Studies (Muhammedanische Studien) 2 vols. (London, Allen & Unwin, 1967-), 1:268 who notes that, in contrast to the Persians who are described as red or light-skinned (ahmar) the Arabs call themselves black. 
[6] Apud Ibn Abī al-adīd, Shar nahj al-balāghah, V:56.
[7] Al-Jāi, Fakhr al-sūdān ‘alā l-bidan, I:209. 
[8] See Wesley Muhammad, “Abyad and the Black Arabs: Some Clarifications” @ http://drwesleywilliams.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Abyad_and_the_Black_Arabs_Site.4394849.pdf.
[9] Ibn Manūr, Lisān al-‘arab, s.v. اخضر IV:245f.
[10] Ibn Manūr, Lisān al-‘arab,, s.v. اخضر IV:245; Lane, Arabic-English, I: 756 s.v. خضر .
[11] Ibn Manūr, Lisān al-‘arab, s.v. اخضر IV:245.
[12] Al-Dhahabī, Siyar a’lām al-nubalā (Beirut, 1992),V:253
[13] Al-Dhahabī, Siyar, III:336.
[14] Al-Suyūī, Tārikh al-khulafā, 134.
[15] Ibn Sa’d, al-abaqāt al-kubrā (Beirut: Dar Sādir) 8:25. On ‘Alī as short and dark brown see I.M.N. al-Jubouri, History of Islamic Philosophy – With View of Greek Philosophy and Early History of Islam (2004), 155; Philip K Hitti, History of the Arabs, 10th edition (London: Macmillan Education Ltd, 1970) 183.  
[16]Tariq Berry, Unknown Arabs; idem, Tariq Berry, “A True Description of the Prophet Mohamed's Family (SAWS),” http://savethetruearabs.blogspot.com/2009/08/true-description-of-prophet-mohameds_26.html.
[17] EI2 2: 372 s.v. Dja’far b. Abī ālib by L. Veccia Vaglieri. 
[18] The Translation of the Meanings of aī Bukharī, Arabic-English, trans. Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan (Medina: Islamic University, 1985) V:47.
[19] Muhammad Qasim Zaman, “The Nature of Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya’s Mahdiship: A Study of Some Reports in Ibahānī’s Maqātil,” Hamdard Islamicus 13 (1990): 60-61.
[20] Quoted from al-abarī, The History of al-abarī, Vol. XXVIII: ‘Abbāsid Authority Affirmed, trans. annot. Jane Dammen McAuliffe (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985) 167-68.
[21] EI2 7:389 s.v. Muammad b. ‘Abd Allāh by F. Buhl.
[22] Al-‘Ibar fī khabar man ghabar (Kuwait: Turath al-Arabi) 4:198.
[23] Al-abarī, Ta’rīkh al-rusul wa’l-mulūk, 10:203.
[24] See above. On the other hand, Caesar E. Farah suggests that Amīna’s tribal background is the Najjār clan of the Banū Khazraj, a tribe in Medina also noted for its blackness. See Caesar E. Farah, Islam 7th Edition (Hauppauge, NY: Barron’s, 2003) 37; Muhammad, Black Arabia, 178-179; Berry, Unknown, 68.
[25] Michael Lecker, The Banå Sulaym: A Contribution to the Study of Early Islam (Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1989), 114. On the Banū Sulaym see further Muhammad, Black Arabia, 180-181.   
[26] Muhammad b. Yūsuf al-āliī al-Shāmī, Subul al-hudā wa-‘l-rashād fī sīrat khayr al-‘bād (Cairo, 1392/1972) I:384-85; Lecker, Banū Sulaym, 114-115.
[27] Al-Dhahabī, Siyar a’lām al-nubalā (Beirut, 1992), 1:97.
[28] On Sa’d b. Abī Waqqās see ‘Abd al-Ramān Rāfat al-Bāshā, uwar min ayāt al-aābah (Karachi: al-Maktabah al-Ghafūrīya al-‘Āimīyah, 1996 ) 285-292 (287); Berry, Unknown Arabs, 71-72.   
[29] Al-Dhahabī, Siyar, I:385-86.
[30] On the significance of these matrilateral listings in Muhammad’s genealogy see Daniel Martin Varisco, “Metaphors and Sacred History: The Genealogy of Muhammad and the Arab ‘Tribe’,” Anthropological Quarterly 68 (1995): 139-156, esp. 148-150.

30 comments:

  1. All this is very well refuted here

    http://www.letmeturnthetables.com/2012/01/refuting-wesleytariq-complexion-prophet.html

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  2. And your point would be: WHAT

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    1. Whites can't handle the truth, Muhammad was Black.

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  4. For me, if this information is true and can be substantiated upon further research, I as a Black man in the U.S. am elated. However, as a Muslim and a believer, it is the message of Islam, the emphasis on Tawheed and the acceptance of Muhammad as a Messenger and servant of the One Allah, that is most important. While we debate over his color, his purpose of guiding humanity away from destruction both in this life and the period after death is most significant because the Quran purports to save souls, nafs, from the inevitable consequences faced at death.

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    1. Black Muhammad Matters! Allah is Black! In Quran its says Who is more beautiful in color than Allah? Black is beauitful!

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  5. This was a great history lesson black Arabs I had to read it twice and so good thanks for sharing

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  6. This is nothing but poor scholarship, intended to fool the ignorant. Beyond that, it is racist in its heart, and that is corruption at its finest. First of all, any fool can look up Adam in Google, or another search engine, and find the root meaning of the original language and its cognates. Adam means red, or ruddy complexion, even fair and handsome...but it NEVER means black, or dark, or anything of what YOU claim it to mean. That is just one grave error in interpretation, and your pathetic claim to understand Arabic, is just as specious.

    This may fool the ignorant racist black out in the world, but it won't fool an honest Muslim, a non-Nation of Islam Muslim. Islam never purports to be about racist dogma, such as is the main tenet of the NOI, or the Black Hebrew Israelites, or other such religious shams. You ought to be ashamed of yourself for abusing Islam this way.

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  7. Here is what Muhammad (PBUH) and his followers (SAW) said:

    Straight from the Quran and early Islamic sources, such as Hadith and other oral traditions.


    Narrated Anas bin Malik: Allah's Apostle said, "You should listen to and obey, your ruler even if he was an Ethiopian (black) slave whose head looks like a raisin."
    Sahih Bukhari 9:89:256

    Qur'an 39:60
    "And on the day of resurrection you shall see those who lied against Allah; their faces shall be blackened. Is there not in hell an abode for the proud?"

    Ishaq:243 “I heard the Apostle say: ‘Whoever wants to see Satan should look at Nabtal!’ He was a black man with long flowing hair, inflamed eyes, and dark ruddy cheeks…. Allah sent down concerning him: ‘To those who annoy the Prophet there is a painful doom.” [9:61] “Gabriel came to Muhammad and said, ‘If a black man comes to you his heart is more gross than a donkey’s.’”


    Al-Tirmidhi Hadith - 38
    Narrated Abud Darda'
    Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said: "Allah created Adam when He had to create him and He struck his right shoulder and there emitted from it white offspring as if they were white ants. He struck his left shoulder and there emitted from it the black offspring as if they were charcoal. He then said (to those who had been emitted) from the right (shoulder): For Paradise and I do not mind. Then He said to those (who had been emitted) from his left shoulder: They are for Hell and I do not mind."

    These are just a few references for the black people mentioned in Al Quran and the Hadiths. There are many many more, and they aren't pretty.

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    1. " leurs visages seront noircis"? On pourrait dire que les noirs n'iront pas en enfer parce que leur visage est deja noir (comment le noircir)???? Alors Arretez de mal interepreter, Pas tous les noirs qui ont des cheveux crepis (beaucoup ont des cheveux long, somaliens, djibouti, erithre autress. Personne ne peut dire avec certitude ce qu'etait les arabes vu toout le melange qui qui a eu lieu, l'important c'est d'adorer Allah.

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    2. Weak and worthless Eurab Hadith lol

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    3. So much for no racism in Islam. By the way, your Hadiths is from sources of your kind. It is just like the New Testament of the Bible; He say she say BS. FOH.

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  8. Dr. Azumah in his book: The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa provides several examples of Islam’s hatred of Blacks. There is the example in the hadith in which an Ethiopian woman laments her racial inferiority to Muhammad, who consoles her by saying, "In Paradise, the whiteness of the Ethiopian will be seen over the stretch of a thousand years."

    Another hadith quotes Muhammad thus: "Do not bring black into your pedigree."

    In fact, the Arabic word for slave, “Abd,” became equated with Africans and Blacks with the advent of Islam.

    Osama Bin Laden, in a discussion with the Sudanese-American novelist, Kola Boof, in Morocco in 1996 said, “when next you meet an Arab, you should ask what is the Arabic word for slave, you’ll discover that the words are the same “abeed.” Which is why, when an Arab looks at a black African, what he sees is a slave.”

    Muhammad owned and sold Black slaves. In fact, he ordered and built the pulpit of his mosque with African slave labour. The Qur'an encourages sex with female slaves in several places. Classical Islamic law allows a light-skinned Muslim man to marry a Black woman, but a Black Muslim man is restricted from marrying a light-skinned woman.

    As the literature of the time put it, "only a whore prefers blacks; the good woman will welcome death rather than being touched by a black man.”

    So interwoven is slavery with Islam that Islams’ holiest city, Mecca (site of the Haj pilgrimage), was a slave trading capital.

    Quoting Azumah again, up until the 20th century, Mecca served as the gateway to the Muslim world for slaves brought out of Africa. "It became a custom for pilgrims to take slaves for sale in Mecca or buy one or two slaves while on Haj as souvenirs to be kept, sold or given as gifts."

    Muslim Arab and Persian literature depicts Blacks as "stupid, untruthful, vicious, sexually unbridled, ugly and distorted, excessively merry and easily affected by music and drink.”

    Nasir al-Din Tusi, a famous Muslim scholar said of Blacks: "The ape is more capable of being trained than the زنجي.”

    Ibn Khaldun, an early Muslim thinker, writes that Blacks are "only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings."

    Ibn Sina (Avicenna 980–1037), Arab’s most famous and influential philosopher/scientist in Islam, described Blacks as “people who are by their very nature slaves.” He wrote: “All African women are prostitutes, and the whole race of African men are abeed (slave) stock.” He equated Black people with “rats plaguing the earth.”

    Ibn Khaldum, an Arab historian stated that “Blacks are characterized by levity and excitability and great emotionalism,” adding that “they are every where described as stupid.”

    al-Dimashqi, an Arab pseudo scientist wrote, “the Equator is inhabited by communities of blacks who may be numbered among the savage beasts. Their complexion and hair are burnt and they are physically and morally abnormal. Their brains almost boil from the sun’s heat…..”

    Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadhani painted this no less horrid picture of black people, “…..the zanji (the blacks) are overdone until they are burned, so that the child comes out between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions…..”

    Some verses:

    Quran-(55:72): “Houris (beautiful, fair females) guarded in pavilions;”

    Quran-(55:70-77): “ In each there shall be virgins chaste and fair….dark eyed virgins sheltered in their tents whom neither man or Jinn have touched before…”

    Narrated Anas bin Malik: Allah's Apostle said, "You should listen to and obey your ruler, even if he was an Ethiopian (black) slave whose head looks like a raisin."

    Sahih Bukhari 9:89:256, See Also Sahih Bukhari 1:11:662, Sahih Bukhari 1:11:664

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    1. Oh cracker, that won't save you from a lynching.

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    2. And is this coming from that pseudo Muhammad you worship?

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  9. I think some of you need to look up Dr. Wesley Muhammad's credentials before attempting to "debunk" this...

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  10. The earliest human population in Arabia was African only because the earlier human population in general is so. The attitudes of the lighter Arabs comes from their European fore father's meanwhile in Catholic Europe the whites themselves pray and venerate a "black" Jew and his mother have have the unmitigated gall to have been doing so for 2000 years! Besides, Hadith sucks, don't put stock in it!!

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  13. "Dr. Azumah in his book: The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa provides several examples of Islam’s hatred of Blacks."



    The Arabs of Dr. Azumah's narratives are really the TURKS (Turkic Arabs) who, after taking over black Arabian lands and making Islam a TURKISH RELIGION, proceeded to paint the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) "white". That's just wishful thinking because Prophet Mohammed was a black man of the Quraysh tribe. The Quraysh tribe are still found in Mecca (Saudi Arabia), Yemen, Oman----with their kindred across the Red Sea in Ethiopia. The distance between Yemen and Ethiopia through the Red Sea is very short. It's like going from Oakland to San Francisco in California. These folks are not only black, but culturally the same for the most part. In fact, when Mohammed fled from Mecca, he simply went across the river into AL HABISHA (Abyssinia) a.k.a. Ethiopia. Why did he go there? He went there because the people looked like him, spoke a language he understood and were hospitable. The Turks did not invent Islam, but under the leadership of Saudi Arabia's BIN TURKI FAMILY, they currently rule, indirectly rule or exert considerable influence ALL the BLACK LANDS of ARABIA including Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, etc. All these nations are now dominated by the TURKISH CULTURE! The BIN TURKIS are TURKS, not ARABS.

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    1. Correction. The hatred of Blacks in Islam come from white Arabs whom today are so far away from Islam that it is pathetic. Saudi Arabia has become a kingdom of Jinns.

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  14. Bravo bravo bravo, the jealous wannabe arabs are manifesting their ape like barbaric behavior that was hidden from ages ago. All it takes is вℓα¢к awareness and the beast υиℓєαѕнєѕ.

    The ρяσρнєт said on тнє αυтнσяιту of abdallah ibn burayda

    'Verily my nation shall be sold three times over to people with broad faces, and the smallest of eyes, their faces will be as if the skin were peeling off.'

    The companions asked; 'o prophet of allah (saws) who are they?

    The prophet said; 'The European turks (khazara)'

    Narrated by imam ahmed ibn hanbal

    Truth is prophecy is far superior than history because history is recorded while prophecy is foretold...

    Take it or leave it red man. I m the mahdi and i m black-skinned!

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  15. If muhamed was black and his mom and dad black and all sahaba and all arabs were black please tell me why it's so sinificant that Bilal was the first black person to make adhan and why it's so significant that Islam abolished slavery and everyone knows Arabs used to take black slaves until Islam stopped it. Whoever made this site is an insecure about his skin color so he tried to twist historical facts. What's next Allah is gonna be black too?

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    1. Arabs inslave black arabs also but they had mostly white slaves

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  16. Racists white Arab desert rats.

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  17. Thanksbto the influx of Persian/Iranians racism entered Islam. Blacks inslaved each other, sold slaves to outsiders. Couldn't no other nationality enter the interior of Africa without the help of another African. Muhammad was black suck it up keep it moving.

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