Adi ibn Hatim

Chief of the tribe of Ṭayy and son of Ḥātim al-Ṭāʾī, the byword of Arab generosity. A Christian with ties to the Romans, he fled north when ʿAlī came to break Ṭayy's idol; but his captured sister, freed and honoured by the Prophet ﷺ for Ḥātim's sake, urged him to go, "he is either a prophet or a king." The Prophet ﷺ won him with humility (seating him on his one worn mat and sitting on the ground) and with piercing daʿwah, "I know your religion better than you," showing ʿAdī broke his own Christian law by taxing his people a quarter, then foretold three things ʿAdī lived to see: a lone woman travelling safe from al-Ḥīra to the Kaʿbah, the treasures of Kisrā distributed among the Muslims, and wealth so abundant none would take charity. He accepted Islam, lived past 120, and fought beside ʿAlī at Ṣiffīn.