Waraka ibn Nawfal
Waraqa ibn Nawfal, Waraqa ibn Nawfal ibn Asad actually ibn ʿ Abd al - ʿ Uzza ibn al - Qusaiy Quraschī (Arabic ورقه بن نوفل بن أسد بن عبد العزى بن قصي القرشي ) was according to the Islamic tradition, a ebionitischer priest and one of the first people who believed in the prophet Muhammad.
He was a first cousin in the paternal line Chadidschas bint Chuwailids, the first wife of Prophet Muhammad. Even with Mohammed himself, he was distantly related: Asad ibn ʿ Waraqas grandfather Abd al- ʿ Uzza was the nephew of ʿ Abd Manaf ibn Qusaiy, an ancestor of Muhammad.
Life
Waraqa was one of the few Arabs who've been dropped in pre-Islamic paganism, but was in contrast to the Hanif, with whom he is frequently called in a row, the Christian faith. In the biography of the Prophet 's life story remains, despite its importance for confirming the legality of the prophetic mission of Muhammad blurry and legendary way: So he found during his travels through Syria to Christianity and learned next to written Arabic and Hebrew. In Mecca he often stayed close to the Ka ʿ ba to his contemporaries he was considered a very learned man.
Shortly after Muhammad's birth he first came on as his savior and brought the lost infant back to his grandfather ʿ Abd al - Muttalib. When he finally learns of Muhammad's first revelation, he rewarded this with the words:
" By Him in Whose Hand my soul is! You are the Prophet of this people. The angel Gabriel came to you, how he came to Moses. They will call you a liar, offend, sell, and try to kill them. Truly, if I live that day, I 'm going to help God as He knows it. "
How long Waraqa, which should already have been at the time of the first revelation old and blind, was still alive then, is disputed in the Islamic tradition; either he died before the beginning of the public life of Muhammad as a prophet, but possibly only after the Hijrah. According to the hadith Muhammad forbade the explicit vilification Waraqas and saw him in a dream already in paradise convert. Both in the Muslim reception of the story as well as in the western Islamic studies is then much has been argued about whether and to what extent Waraqa influence could have taken on the thinking of Muhammad.