Al-Arqam ibn-abil-Arqam
Al - Arqam ibn Abī - ʾ l - Arqam (Arabic الأرقم بن أبي الأرقم al - Arqam ibn Abī ʾ l - Arqam, DMG al - Arqam b Abī ʾ l - Arqam, . * 594, † 673-675 ) was an influential Kaufmann of the clan Banū Machzūm بنو مخزوم / Banū Maḫzūm from Mecca. The Islamic history according to tradition, he was the seventh, who adopted the Islamic faith in Mecca.
He emigrated with the Prophet to Medina and participated in the most important campaigns. One family tradition, according to which al-Dhahabi referenced in his biography, al - Arqam is prepared on a journey to Jerusalem (bayt al - Maqdis ), to pray there. Muhammad should have kept him from his purpose in these words, which have been handed more than once in the canonical collections of traditions:
"Prayer in my mosque (ie the Prophet's Mosque in Medina ) is better than a thousand prayers elsewhere - apart from the Meccan sanctuary. "
The house of al - Arqam in Makkah
The house of al - Arqam stood on the hill of Safa, near the Meccan sanctuary, in which he granted Muhammad and his first followers refuge from the polytheistic Quraysh of the city. Al- Azraqi, Abū ʾ l - Waleed († 837 ), the local historian of Mecca, reported in the topographical description of this house about the beginning of Muhammad's activities with the words: " He hid (ie Muhammad ) in front of the polytheists and met (in house) at al - Arqam ibn Abī ʾ l - Arqam with his followers. "
The historian Muhammad ibn Sa ʿ d ( † 845) differentiated at the mention of the first Muslims from Mecca consistently between those who before or during Muhammad's stay in the "house al - Arqam " ( Dar al- Arqam ) converted to Islam: " N. N. embraced Islam before the Messenger of Allah entered the house of al - Arqam ibn Abī ʾ l - Arqam and before it there ( people ) called to Islam, "and" N. N. embraced Islam in the house of al - Arqam in ". al - Arqam ibn Abī ʾ l - Arqam transferred the property to his descendants and explained it in his deed of gift to the holy place and his foundation ( sadaqa ) within the Meccan sanctuary, which could not be sold or inherited.
Until the reign of Al- Mansur into the house of al - Arqam remained in family ownership. The historic site then transferred to Al -Mahdi al - Chayzurān his wife, the mother of Haaroon ar - Rashid and al - Hādī.
The Arab chronicler of the city of Makkah Al- Azraqi, this house mentioned in his chronicle of the city, in the chapter on those places in Mecca where the prayer is especially meritorious, even under the new name Dar al - Chayzurān / دار الخيزران / Daru ʾ l - ḫaizurān /, the house of al - Chayzuran ', in which a mosque is. Today the house is still known by this name. It was also al - Chayzurān who had converted into a house of prayer, the birthplace of Muhammad, where prayer was particularly meritorious.
A detailed description of the history of this building goes back to an old family tradition that has been documented in Muhammad ibn Sa ʿ d, the fourth generation after al - Arqam. It is in the processing of al - Haakim in - Nisaburi (* 933, † 1014), preserved in its collection of those hadiths that have not been included al -Bukhari and Muslim in their hadith. There the house al - Arqams is called " House of Islam ".
Al - Arqam in Malaysia
Al- Arqam was named after the house of al - Arqam organization for the revival of Islam in Malaysia, which was banned in November 1994.